Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week's [July 25] swell TIME write-up of the Hughes flight was a discussion of the rubber life raft with bottled carbon dioxide for quick inflation. Carbon dioxide happens to be a bad actor as soon as it smells rubber. . . . Its rate of diffusion through rubber is about 15 times that of air. A rubber life raft inflated with carbon dioxide in mid-ocean might, for this reason, be a little embarrassing, perhaps even rather trying after a certain lapse of time...
...Paramount). Underworld melodrama, based on a story by Norman Krasna, directed by Fritz Lang, scored by Kurt Weill, acted by Sylvia Sidney and George Raft which, setting out to prove that Crime Does Not Pay, proves instead that the brightest names in Hollywood sometimes make its dullest pictures...
...always the handsomest male which is the sexiest. Among Hollywood actors she picked George Raft as scoring high in sex personality, "But if I just look at a man they think it's something else...
...later Commander Henry Coyle's Coast Guard cutter Mendota picked up the last of the 21 survivors who clung to bobbing bits of debris. Captain Coufopandelis bore a painful gash on the bridge of his nose, the bite of a sailor who shared the captain's improvised raft and went mad from drinking salt water. The others, six of whom were saved by the C. D. Mallory tanker Swiftsure, told a gruesome tale. The sea had suddenly become alive with sharks. Helpless comrades could only look on as the man-eaters tore the bodies of two seamen...
...fearful sea raged all day, making it impossible to launch a boat. Yet without one chance of surviving, nine men launched a life-raft. A huge wave broke the line and knocked two overboard. After dark another line was made fast to the fore-rigging, and by means of a breeches buoy the two remaining men, more dead than alive, were landed. One was the mate, who told the people that he had seen his wife and little boy drown when a wave broke into the cabin...