Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fearful sea raged all day, making it impossible to launch a boat. Yet without one chance of surviving, nine men launched a life-raft. A huge wave broke the line and knocked two overboard. After dark another line was made fast to the fore-rigging, and by means of a breeches buoy the two remaining men, more dead than alive, were landed. One was the mate, who told the people that he had seen his wife and little boy drown when a wave broke into the cabin...
...land (TIME, Feb. 1). An accomplished orchestrator, Conductor Kostelanetz was at the same time rated No. 1 in radio popularity. He specializes in lush, full-blown arrangements of popular and semiclassical numbers and this week on his radio half-hour for Chesterfield cigarets (WABC), he prepared to launch what his sponsors declare is a new musical style, presenting brief, "streamlined" versions of symphonic works...
...strange tale of 14 men in a boat came out of the British-owned Bahamas last week. On the beach near Mayari, Cuba, startled fishermen looked up from their work to see a motor launch, propelled by a sail pieced out of dirty shirts and trousers, ground itself in the shallow-water. Out of the rudderless boat tumbled five Americans, nine British West Indian Negroes. Wolfing food and water, the first they had seen in four blistering clays, the tattered survivors gasped out a story of riot, rebellion on Great Inagua,* southernmost of the Bahamas, 50 miles from the Cuban...
...killed one employe, then roamed the island searching for other "Yankees." The enraged natives fired the store, radio station, salt buildings, the Commissioner's residence, the warehouse. Erickson, four other American residents, Commissioner Fields, eight Negroes grabbed rifles, tear-gas guns, cartridges, shot their way clear to the launch...
...boats, but an amphibian; and that Pan American and Pan American-Grace are separate airlines, although P.A.A.owns 50% of P.A.G. stock. P.A.A.'s safety record with its Clippers is almost perfect: only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last year when a Clipper sideswiped a launch while taking off from Trinidad's Port-of-Spain harbor, filled with water (TIME, April 20, 1936). Even that mishap was more like a collision between surface craft than the sort of accident that commonly befalls airplanes. The record of P.A.G., which flies the difficult South American overland routes...