Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inventor credited with being the father of the submarine and the underwater explosive which is still one of the most effective weapons against it. During the Revolution he built an oaken submarine with which unsuccessful attempts were made to screw bombs onto the hulls of British warships in Boston Harbor, off Governor's Island, and in the Delaware River above Philadelphia. His "torpedo" (an oaken magazine enclosing 150 Ibs. of gunpowder) went off harmlessly. Too frail to operate the soon discredited "Bushnell's Turtle" himself, its inventor blamed its failure on its operators. After...
Died. Susan C. Whitney Dimock, 97, diamond-studded matriarch of Washington, D. C. society, sister of the late William Collins Whitney, who founded the Whitney fortune; in Bar Harbor...
...when his war ended. British raiders were also in evidence, preying on German shipping. Total losses for the week: Germany, four ships, 14,764 tons; Allies, 16 ships, 89,841 tons. Mystery of the week: where was the Bremen, unreported twelve days after her dash out of New York Harbor...
...Northern Ireland was in, and only Eire, of the Empire's major members, was out. But Eire's neutrality was summed up by an official who released the crew of a British seaplane forced down in a remote harbor of Eire. Said he: "Sure, we're neutral, but who are we neutral against...
...John Tilton; in her vasty belly a ten-man crew, 18 assorted observers. Some 17 hours later in Honolulu she stopped briefly, knuckled down to the remaining hops. Last week, seven days, some 7,500 miles from starting point, she taxied across Auckland, New Zealand's handsome, big harbor, fit as a fiddle, her test passed 100%. Proudly wired Pilot Tilton: "We received a warm and enthusiastic greeting from our friends 'down under' who welcomed the California Clipper as a precursor of an air service putting New Zealand within four days of the United States." When...