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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...craft, to be known as the ARD3 (Auxiliary Repair Dock), will be 1,016 ft. long, 165 ft. beam, 75 ft. high from keel to top deck. It will have a streamlined bow like any ordinary ship and steering equipment in the stern, so that it can be towed by one of the auxiliary train at a rate of ten knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will...
...been trying out for two years on small destroyers and submarines. When bids are opened this week for the construction of the ARD-3, shipbuilders will be preparing bids for the building of the ARD-2, a sister dock of the experimental ARD-1, which is 446 ft. long. The ARD3 is intended for use in the Pacific and will probably be built somewhere on the Pacific Coast, since it will be too large to pass through the Panama Canal...
...nitrates, as from gunpowder, were made of both their hands. Last week Coroner D. L. Ricketts of La Grange announced that the tests indicated Mrs. Taylor had not lately fired a gun, and that General Denhardt had. Coroner Ricketts further announced that stains found on the road 410 ft. from Mrs. Taylor's body had been made by human blood, and that stains found on the coat worn by General Denhardt the night of her death had also been made by human blood...
...Because of the intense feeling against the General," announced 6 ft. 5 in. Sheriff Evan Harrod of Henry County, "and the murmuring that some of Mrs. Taylor's kinfolk are preparing for any emergency, we are going to be ready to repel any attempt against the General's life...
...Castle's packed courtroom was surrounded by State police and deputy sheriffs when General Denhardt, bluff, 6 ft. 2 in., 220-lb. veteran of three wars, appeared for an examining trial. George Baker, the farmer who had pushed the General's stalled car into his driveway and later heard two shots, took the stand. The first shot, he said, had sounded "awful loud, awful near." He had gone out in the yard, had glimpsed the General standing by his car, then heard a second shot, "like a popgun or a .22 rifle." General Denhardt had explained that...