Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1936 the keel was laid. In April 1937 Queen Wilhelmina launched the Nieuw Amsterdam.* With accommodations for 1,232 passengers in cabin, tourist, and third classes, the new, 785 ft., 36,287 ton ship had 374 private bathrooms (a record for her size), 23 public rooms so arranged that all could be thrown together to make her a one-class ship for cruises, two swimming pools, a theatre, more complete air-conditioning and fire protection than any ship afloat, aluminum lifeboats. Most notable of all, her interior decoration ranked her at once as one of the most beautiful ships...
...four Jayvee boats will be bidding for victory tomorrow, but again the fight will be between the Crimson and Cornell boats. Two weeks ago both lacked smoothness and a good keel, but after stroke Bill Rowe swept to victory over the Tigers, most observers are betting on the Harvard seconds to take another in their stride...
...mile of nickel steel chain, longest ever forged, to drag a submarine plow Western Union has been developing for the past three years. The steel "plow" weighs ten tons, is ten feet long, four feet wide, three feet high, resembles a gigantic stone boat. Beneath its rear end a keel furrows 16 inches deep in the ocean floor, feeds a cable over a wheel into the trench. The churning wheel and sea's action quickly refill the furrow. Submarine plows can bury 15 miles of cable a day, may be able to save cable companies $500,000 a year...
...well took care of rumors of the week before that "Young Turks" hoped to turn out old Neville Chamberlain for failing to support Mr. Eden's uncompromising hostility to aggressive Italy and Germany. The Commons cheered Mr. Chamberlain to the rafters and His Majesty's Government were keel down once more...
...completed ship the Allies took, handing her proudly over to Britain's White Star Line which ran her for years as the Homeric. Last year she was broken up for scrap. Meantime work was again started on her weathering sister ship on the keel site of 1914. In 1922, two years after Danzig became a Free City, the graceful beauty was launched, christened the Columbus. Until the advent of the Bremen and Europa seven years later she was Germany's largest ship, crack vessel of its mercantile marine; then the Columbus fell into third place. Re-turbined...