Word: mainmast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After President Arias of Panama left the Houston at Balboa his Panama's red- white-&-blue flag dropped from the mainmast and up again went President Roosevelt's four-starred ensign. The cheering died down and Sons Franklin Jr. and John were left loitering on the dock at the end of the gangplank. Two women reporters pounced upon them...
...Sherman Hoyt, who has navigated the Atlantic on everything except an inflated tire tube, the Dorade sailed for Norway in May. She arrived in 24 days after encountering two gales in one of which Roderick Stephens had to go aloft for three hours to repair a spreader on the mainmast...
...From the mainmast of the new 10,000-ton cruiser Augusta flew the three-starred flag of Vice Admiral Frank H. Clark, the Scouting Force's commander. Astern steamed the Navy's newest and best men-o'-war-the heavy cruisers Salt Lake City, Chicago, Chester, Louisville, Northampton, Pensacola. Spread out in the van were 13 destroyers, their needle-like hulls wallowing in the long blue swell, their stacks belching inky smoke. The 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession...