Word: hulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath Manhattan's East River, Diver John Forward was groping over the hulk of the S. S. Lexington which sank last January (TIME, Jan. 14) when a human hand languidly slapped him across the face of his helmet. It was the hand of a man whose feet had been caught under a packing case. The hand continued to slap Diver Forward until he had worked the body loose, sent it to the surface...
...weakened heart supposedly caused by 14 hours' exposure in the water after she and her sister jumped from the burning Ward liner last September and swam ashore each with a child in tow. (Total deaths: 128.) Off Asbury Park last week, wreckers salvaging the vessel reported that the charred hulk was "wrinkling," the whole ship was cracking...
...hysterical day last week the municipality of Asbury Park, N. J. laid plans to acquire the beached and blackened hulk of T. E. L. Morro Castle for a side show. Editors boomed out their alarm over the failure of men and machinery in a marine disaster that had taken 127 lives. President Roosevelt at Hyde Park talked hopefully of new fireproof construction laws at the next Congress which would prevent a repetition of such a holocaust. And in Manhattan the Department of Commerce's Steamboat Inspection service tried to get at the cause and circumstances of the wreck...
...blackened hulk of the T. E. L. Morro Castle was hardly cold last week before newsphoto agencies leaped headlong into the advertising pages of Editor & Publisher to tell the trade how they trounced their competitors in the race for pictures of this latest marine catastrophe. All the boasting was done by Acme Newspictures and International News Photos at the expense of their common enemy, the Associated Press...
Five thousand Italian officers and a group of foreign military attaches tramped across a dusty field outside Bologna toward the grey hulk of a heavy tank. Maneuvers were over and Benito Mussolini, standing legs astraddle on the turret of the tank, was ready to deliver a final oration before troops were dismissed...