Word: floated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorrow of most oarsmen, the barge has sprung is weak in the joints, and has to be scrapped. At least it will not float on the river any more. It may go to Dartmouth, however, two carpenters, "Scotty" and Arthur, worked five weeks building a stronger, lighter, and more-casily handled boat. It was launched three days ago but won't be used until next fall, for it has no riggers and the outdoor training season will be over in two weeks...
...operation is successful, oil manufactured at Bayway during the summer will be pumped into the quarry, where it will float on the water, be covered with 250 three-ton floating steel pontoons. In winter the oil will be piped back for distribution to homes. Esso owns or has options on nine other quarries in the area capable of holding 8,000,000 bbls., enough to heat 225,000 homes for a year...
...EATON, wily old (70) boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co. and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, was helped up, then knocked down, by the U.S. Government. Otis was cleared by the Securities & Exchange Commission of six-year-old charges that it welshed on a $10 million deal to help float stock for Kaiser-Frazer Corp. But Internal Revenue agents handed Eaton a $1,570,000 bill for back income taxes (1943) on a $1,909,000 profit he made by transferring stock between two Canadian iron-ore companies...
HOLLAND is forging ahead with its postwar financial recovery, has just prepaid $52.5 million of a $195 million World Bank loan that is not due until 1970. The thrifty Dutch have thereby saved millions in interest, made it possible for the World Bank to cancel its plan to float a $100 million loan this fall...
...scares his listeners with a bagful of simple but effective tricks. For a story where a man is hanged, he had the camera turn slowly back and forth to suggest a corpse swinging on a rope. Trick lights and a turtleneck sweater make his cadaverous face appear to float in air, and sometimes a zoomar lens moves in until only one glittering Nordine eye fills up the television screen...