Word: narragansett
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...home base at Quonset Point, R.I. As soon as the alarm was flashed ashore, the Quonset Point Naval Air Station rounded up all helicopters in the area and began a ship-to-shore ambulance service. Fires were under control by 8, but as the carrier glided up Narragansett Bay at 12:30 p.m. for her homecoming, rescue parties were still prowling through the blackened compartments, and the dead, shrouded in white blankets, were spaced across the hangar deck...
...anybody can figure out a way to raise the water level of Narragansett Bay ten feet while leaving the rest of New England relatively undamaged, he has this newspaper's support, sight unseen. For abutting chat bay is Providence, Rhode Island, a squatty town of several hundred thousand people. As anyone who headed southward this weekend now well knows, there is no excuse for Providence...
...display was the work of Collector Rudolf F. Haffenreffer, an old M.I.T. man ('95) and board chairman of Rhode Island's Narragansett Brewing Company. A longtime Americana fan, Brewer Haffenreffer started collecting wooden Indians in the '303 as a promotion stunt for his company. Then it became a passionate hobby...
...Thirty miles away, the cutters Eastwind and Acushnet took men off the stern. By the time the storm subsided, 14 men from the broken tankers were lost. Of the four pieces of two ships only the Fort Mercer's stern remained afloat. It was taken into Narragansett Bay with 1,470,000 gallons of oil still in its tanks, the cargo pumped out, and then towed to Brooklyn...
...fund set up in 1696 by Samuel Sewall 1671 and his wife stipulated that scholarships were to be given to needy students, "especially such as shall be sent from Petaquamscot (in the Narragansett Country), English or Indians, if any such there...