Word: galley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service. Passengers would sit five across and be allowed 44 lbs. of baggage, as on present tourist flights, but would have four inches less leg room between seats. The airlines would sell sandwiches, serve no hot meals or liquor. They would thus be able to cut down the galley, make do with two stewardesses, and carry as many as 104 passengers, v. 71 on present tourist flights. On a DC-7B, the flight would take 13 hours, including stopovers at Gander and Shannon, take two hours more than present nonstop tourist schedules...
...Greeks against the Trojans. It was not hard to do. Troy was rich in tribute taken from Greek merchants. Moreover, Paris himself was the young spark that fell into this tinder box. His rape of Helen, Queen of Sparta, whom he carried off to Troy in a fast galley, brought the Greeks to the shores of Asia Minor in 1186 ships...
...rolling stock with low-slung, highspeed, articulated Talgo trains (he has already ordered three), and to string a moving conveyor belt along the tracks between New York and Boston to carry less-than-carload freight. But for all his energy, ambition and ideas, McGinnis made his passengers feel like galley slaves...
...night of Dec. 11, 1710, England's Nottingham galley was smashed to bits on rocky Boon Island, just six miles off the coast of Maine. What the crew of 14 sees the next morning is enough to test the fiber of any man: a ledge on which nothing grows, a slab of rock pounded by huge seas. The ship has vanished in the night, the men have nothing but the clothes they wear. There is no food, no firewood, no water. Novelist Roberts has a perfect chance to sort out the men from the weaklings. Some of them...
...fine afternoon in December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was picked up heading westward in the South Atlantic under jib and fore-topsail, her galley table set for dinner, and not one soul aboard. Why her master, Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife, his crew and his passengers-ten in all-should have deserted their ship in midocean is still the sea's most taunting mystery...