Word: funneling
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...murals visitors were shown a century's changes from wood to iron and steel; from paddle wheel to screw, to multiple screws. Last paddle wheeler left the Atlantic in 1874, the first turbine arrived 20 years later. "Grandest failure" was the 18,914-ton Great Eastern, a five-funnel combined paddle and screw steamship, 680 feet long, built in 1858. Most vessels then carried about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern accommodated 4,000- 1,800 more than today's Queen Mary. Forty years ahead of her times, the Great Eastern never paid her way, ended her days...
Prankish sailors will not take in TIME twice. "Charley Noble" is ship slang for a galley funnel. "Joe Gish," at Annapolis as at Princeton and other universities throughout the land, is equivalent to the civilian "John Doe." And Reader Noble's U.S.S. Seattle can scarcely be rolling, for it has not been out of the Brooklyn navy yard for ten years...
...provide 500 cruise passengers with a 20 ft. by 28 ft. open-air tiled swimming pool with dressing rooms and showers for 50, a dance floor 20 ft. by 60 ft. raised three feet above the deck and lighted from below. The whole top deck between bridge and forward funnel, will become a "Beach Club" 150 ft. by 50 ft., with railside refreshment tables under gay umbrellas, surrounding pool and dance floor...
...with new German anti-aircraft guns. Watchers on shore could see them go into action, white woolly puffs bursting all round the circling bombers. What happened next was a splendid moot point for naval historians. Loyalists say one of their air bombs plopped straight down the Espana's funnel. Rebels insist that the Espana struck a floating mine. In any case, up she blew and in 45 minutes sank by the stern to the bottom of the Bay of Biscay. Of her crew, normally 854 officers and men, no were rescued by the Velasco. Fishing boats searched the area...
...fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans of calcium carbide, flung one 300 yd. against the side of a coal tower. After 20 min. the twister was lifted back into its mother cloud, drenching the ground with water as it rose...