Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolutely agree with E. P. Holton. England should pay her debt to us by giving us some of her island possessions in the Western Hemisphere. I say some, because I have visited most of the islands mentioned, and I think one or two should be given back to the Devil...
...Costa Rican officials considered occupying Cocos Island, which lies about 550 miles southwest of Panama and which no nation claims, to prevent its use as a belligerent submarine base...
...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 the war he was believed to have spent several...
First in another field was NEA Service, when in Texas-born Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs native girls were pictured dancing naked though mud-daubed (see cut), on a South Sea island...
...invited to bid on about 152,000 tons of new shipping (approximately 1,700,000 man-hours of work are required to build an average 6,400-ton cargo vessel). Bethlehem Steel increased the working hours of 20,000 employes at its Sparrows Point (Maryland) shipbuilding division, at Staten Island planned to hire 2,000 more...