Word: opened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconds after the first diving signal was given, officers at key posts throughout the boat reported all rigged for diving. The Squalus was 50 feet under the surface before "a hazy voice" from the engine room telephoned: "Take her up. The induction [main air valve] is open," and seconds later: "The engine room is flooded...
Weeks before the Squalus went down, the guilty valve failed to open properly but had never failed to close. It was disassembled, supposedly put in perfect order. On the Squalus and her sister boats, this valve is outside the hull, near the conning tower and invisible to those inside, who must depend on signal lights to know whether it is open or closed. The electrical signal system could have lied "if the mechanism was out of order...
...subrftarine's Diesel engines and crew with air when on the surface. (Undersea, battery-driven motors propel a submarine, stored air supplies the crew.) A Board of Inquiry thereafter recommended steps to find out whether an automatic, interlocking control could be developed so that when air valves were open, the ballast tanks which weight a submarine with water and make it dive could not be filled...
...work, with an explanatory text by Quincy Howe (author of England Expects Every American To Do His Duty), is to be published in the U. S.* Covering the hectic years of 1932-39, most of the car toons have kept their timeliness surprisingly well. His interpretation of the "Open Door," drawn in 1934, anticipated by five years Japan's present at tempt to drive foreign interests out of China, an eventuality which the British Government at that time thought highly improbable. The drawing of the gorged wolves appeared on Dec. 2, 1938, shortly after Polish troops occupied Teschen, completing...
...badminton, most popular lawn game of the year. Practically unknown as an al fresco pastime five years ago, the British-born game of badminton-batting a shuttlecock (or "bird") back & forth over a high net-has become a U. S. vogue as quickly and ubiquitously as women's open-toed shoes...