Word: pontoon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marine pilot, Capt. Howard, flying over Nicaragua involuntarily came to earth near La Luz mine on the east coast. His pontoon dug into the earth, ploughed a furrow. Corporal George Cole left to guard the plane, whiled away the time by panning out $100 worth of gold from a vein thus exposed...
...battered pontoon, found floating last week off the Fugloe Islands, north of Norway, was taken to be conclusive evidence that Capt. Roald Amundsen, Capt. Rene Gilbaud and their four companions were dead. The condition of the pontoon indicated that it had been torn from Capt. Amundsen's seaplane by a sea crash...
Still the waves piled over one another ribaldly, broke, boiled away. Then a loud report fetched all eyes aft. They saw a pontoon shoot clear of the combers and settle back into the ocean in a smother of foam. Quickly then another catapulted through the waves, floated off casually. Far below the surface a chain with links two and a half inches thick and tested to a strain of 110 tons had parted. The work of months at the risk of many lives, all realized, had been swept away in a single moment. The wind blew fresher, the seas rolled...
Lean and nervous Captain King in a dirty blue uniform leaned over the rail, his bloodshot eyes staring into the water. Dejectedly he said, "We've done everything we can. Two months of it and we're tired!" He gave orders to capture the two capricious, runaway pontoons, to flood the ones floating,-it was an impossibility to tow the submarine to port with her stern resting on the bottom. Smashing seas imperiled the small boats and crashed together the four pontoons, rendering the re-submergence extremely hazardous. The first man to volunteer for the job of opening...
Owing to the overcrowding of a pontoon, 84 Reichswehr soldiers lost their lives in the swift River Weser during Army maneuvers. The Reichstag held a "mourning session," flags were at half mast all over Germany...