Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill bestowing a Medal of Honor upon Richmond Pearson Hobson for his attempt in 1898 to blockade the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor by sinking the Merrimac...
...South Wales spent ten years and $50,000,000 to build "Sydney's Dream," the world's largest single-arch bridge, across Sydney harbor. Three months ago "Sydney's Dream" was opened with official pomp, unofficial commotion (TIME, March 28). Last week it gave promise of becoming Sydney's nightmare. Large cracks appeared in the roadway, running both transversely and longitudinally. The bridge is paved with a coke compound. The compound contains sulphur. Engineers examining the paving, which was laid on a steel deck, found that the sulphur is setting up a chemical reaction which...
Preparations for the departure started yesterday when the "Class of 1898", Coach Haines' launch, and the "Frank Thompson", which Coach Whiteside uses, were run downstream through the harbor to be shipped by freight to New London...
Last week Publisher Putnam was fidgeting and fretting in a hotel room. Somewhere out over the Atlantic from Harbor Grace, N. F. was "A. E.," alone this time in a wasp-powered red-&-gold Lockheed. In the four years since her first flight "G. P." had rarely been far in the background of her career. He had backed her flying and, astute about publicity, nurtured her fame when she by her reticence might have let it languish. Two years ago he married her. Now she was flying toward Paris on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight...
...courageous flight, counseled by wise Bernt Balchen, Miss Earhart became not only the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds...