Word: hulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primo Carnera, onetime side-show freak and carnival wrestler, beat Jack Sharkey in six rounds and became heavyweight champion of the world in 1933. Fighting all over Europe and the U. S., Carnera, a bewildered, grinning hulk, probably earned a million dollars. His managers got most of it. He threw most of his away, then disappeared from U. S. sport pages after Negro Leroy Haynes knocked him out twice. Two months ago word came from France that Primo Carnera had been knocked out by a sparring partner while training for a comeback...
...Institute of Technology, Max Nohl joined the round-the-world broadcasting cruise of Phillips ("Seth Parker") Lord with a diving bell of his own design. After graduation in 1935, he became a professional diver, worked on several successful salvaging jobs, brought up nothing but an 1851 penny from the hulk of the West M or eland which sank in Lake Michigan in 1854. He started experimenting with helium mixtures in a decompression chamber at Milwaukee County General Hospital...
...suit or keep its details secret, and the Navy has been supplied with all essential information. One purpose to which Messrs. Nohl & Craig hope to put it is the salvaging of valuable articles from the Lusitania. Two years ago, the Orphir, a privately financed salvage ship, located a large hulk off tne Irish coast by means of an echo-sounder, and this was assumed to be the Lusitania when a diver found two-inch rivets, such as used in constructing the Lusitania. Bad weather and other difficulties drove the searchers off before there was any opportunity to look for treasure...
...original Dock Street Theatre, sold in 1749, was followed by two successors, both destroyed by fire in the next 50 years. On the site in 1806 was built Charleston's famous Planters' Hotel, where dusty Southern palates cooled to prime Planters' Punches. Remodeled in 1835, the hulk of it stood in dejected shabbiness 100 years later, when the FERA, on the prowl for projects, adopted the idea of Mrs. Burnet R. Maybank, wife of Charleston's mayor, for salvaging the old hotel and reconstructing the historic theatre at the same time...
...inquiry, he revealed one of the most amazing escapes of all. Cornered on a narrow catwalk when the gasbags all around him leapt into flame, young Franz jumped through the fabric, fell to earth so hard he was stunned. He would have burned to death as the blazing hulk settled upon him, but a ballast tank burst above him, drenching him with cold water which both revived him and extinguished his burning clothes. Unharmed, he groped his way to safety...