Word: eleanore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck. The diver goes down without an airhose, carries an oxygen bottle, a respirator, caustic soda to absorb carbon dioxide. Aboard the Terminal last week this fantastic diving suit was called "Eleanor...
...tall, gangling, muscular man who went down encased in ''Eleanor" is a crack deep-sea diver named Roy Robert Hansen. He worked on the S-51 and S-4 jobs when those U. S. submarines went to the bottom (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925; Dec. 26, 1927). His father, a diver called "Big Charley," was killed working in the Great Lakes, and "Big Charley's" father also lost his life diving. Roy Hansen counts on a generous cut of the Hussar's riches to retire...
...Terminal's procedure was to pay out 2,000 ft. of cable with Hansen in "Eleanor" at the end, then drag him along against the swirling tide. Though the depth was never more than 112 ft., Hansen thought it the nastiest job of his career, said he was bumped against rocks and whirled around until he was groggy. By week's end he had encountered six drowned hulks, identified none as the Hussar. But Diver Hansen appraised as practically nil the chances of the rival Josephine, whose backers remained anonymous last week. Wearing ordinary diving-suits, the Josephine...
...hold top-notch positions makes an impressive roster: Josephine Roche, who owns and runs her late father's Rocky mountain Fuel Co. (TIME, Sept. 7, 1931; Sept. 24); Mary Elizabeth Dillon, who rose from office-girl to president of the 12,000,000 Brooklyn Borough Gas Co.; Eleanor Medill Patterson, fiery editor of Hearst's Washington Herald; May Greer, cashier of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., reputedly highest salaried woman in the U. S.; Minnie Williams Miller, owner and operator of Thousand Springs stock farms in Idaho; Mrs. Charles B. Knox, president of Knox Gelatine Co., and many others...
...books weighty with case histories and sociological formulas Professor Sheldon Glueck of Harvard Law School and his scholarly wife Eleanor have told how 500 Criminal Careers began, how 1,000 Juvenile Delinquents got that way. In a third fine fat book they now tell why 500 Delinquent Women went wrong.* The publication closely follows conventions last week of the American Prison Association, the American Parole Association and the National Conference of Juvenile Agencies in Houston, Tex. For many of the jailers and reformers there the texts of the Gluecks are so much gospel...