Word: oilers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pandemonium broke loose below decks after the shutoff. Men fought like beasts to get out of the hold. Three times Oiler Antonio Georgia started up the narrow stairs and three times his legs were caught and he was dragged down...
...practice of changing the service records of men dishonorably discharged by U. S. services the President imposed his ninth veto on a bill to grant an honorable discharge to Joseph G. Mclnerney who. serving in the Coast Guard in 1902. was confined in the brig, demoted from third oiler to coal heaver, and finally discharged for using insolent and mutinous language and insubordination...
...pictures enclosed by Reader Habicht shows the U. S. Navy's dirigible Los Angeles moored to the mast of the oiler Patoka at sea. The second picture shows the Los Angeles, blown skyward by a sudden gust, sweeping the16,800-ton oiler after it high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing...