Word: lifeboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tallulah Bankhead heard that among the 20-odd reporters gathered in honor of her role in Lifeboat (see p. 94) was a young woman from New York City's crusading newspaper PM, "My God, if I'd known," seethed Tallulah. "Of all the filthy, rotten, Communist rags . . . that is the most vicious ['clenched fists up to ear level,' dutifully noted the PM reporter], dangerous . . . hating paper . . . cruel . . . unfair ... I loathe it ... Darling, I hope I haven't hurt you." To PM's editor, a few days later, Tallulah wrote a note: ". . . Convey my thanks...
...gallantry at sea," Mrs. Margaret Hope Maberly Gordon, Australian widow, last week received the British Empire Medal from King George VI. Her gallantry: cast adrift from a torpedoed merchantman in the South Atlantic, she had survived a 52-day ordeal in an open lifeboat. Of 17 in the boat, 15 died...
...exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that often leads to gangrene...
...London, Lieut. J. H. G. Goodfellow, R.N.V.R., demonstrated to the Ministry of War Transport a simple stove for lifeboat use which can distill six quarts of fresh water at a time. Compact and light (28 lb.), the little still can burn kerosene or wood...
...Doctors call it immersion foot when a seaman's feet are bloated after long chilling in the sea water shipped by an open lifeboat...