Word: keels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away in a boat, go over the lower side if the ship has listed. If you go over the upper side you will be in danger of being badly hurt by barnacles [and] of fracturing your ankles by hitting your heels against the bilge keel. . . . Jump into the water feet first; do not dive. ... If you have to swim through a patch of oil keep your head and eyes high and your mouth closed. ... If you have to jump from the ship into burning oil you may, if you are a good swimmer, avoid being burned. . . . Jump feet first through...
...normal" corn-hog ratio of 11-to-1 (i.e., 100 lb. of hogs is equal in price 11-to-1 bu. of corn) is just enough to keep hog production on an even keel. Today the ratio is about...
...against an average for the industry of about 56 days. It allowed him to build more cargo ships in his Portland yards in one year than Hog Island built in four. It allowed him to launch one vessel in four days, 15 hours, and another which, 51 days after keel-laying, turned up with cargo in Australia. From the Kaiser empire, sprawling from Seattle to Portland to Los Angeles, came one out of every three Libertys built. And though the U.S. built only a fraction of the ships it needs, it achieved its 1942 production goal...
...inch shells. Her sister ships had given her up for lost, but two hours later-her exploded magazine flooded, her bulkhead shored up, her shell holes stuffed with bedding-she ghosted into her regular station in column. "She was down by the head, but on an even keel...
...Sunday the keyed-up swing shift at Richmond got started. The first 200-ton piece of double-bottomed keel section of the Liberty ship Robert E. Peary was hoisted on to the keel blocks. After that things moved swiftly...