Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became evident that rescue operations, no matter how desperate, had to begin-the plane had begun to leak and many passengers were approaching the point of hysteria. Captain Cronk signaled a suggestion that the chief pilot call for volunteers. Three of the seamen got calmly into a rubber raft, were let down toward the cutter on a line and were safely picked up by coast guardsmen...
...Swamped Raft. After that, the heaving arena between ship and plane became the scene of desperate endeavor. The Bibb laid down oil slicks. A bigger, 15-man raft was maneuvered up to the plane, loaded and gotten out to open water where a small boat pulled passengers aboard. Three loads-seven people, then ten, then eleven -jumped or were pushed out of the plane into the raft. It was wild work...
...when Picasso was painting in a classic style: the Woman in White, painted in 1923, and the 1905 Coiffure. The Met also agreed to buy from the Modern three Seurat drawings, paintings by Signac, Cézanne, Redon, Rouault and Matisse; sculptures by Maillol, Despiau and Kolbe, and a raft of U.S. folk art-all for $191,000. That would give the Modern more money to spend on contemporaries and relative unknowns-who might some day become "classic...
Despite flares and a pinpoint, radar-controlled search pattern, rescue planes crisscrossed the area in vain all night. At 7 the next morning, a Marine fighter pilot sighted an overturned life raft. A following B-iy spotted three survivors floating in the shark-infested water. An hour later the Coast Guard cutter Hermes picked them...
...Tiki was doing all right. Last week, the men on the big log raft (modeled after an ancient Peruvian balsa) sighted the first land they had seen since leaving Callao, Peru, three months and 4,100 miles ago (TIME, April 21). It was the island of Puka Puka, easternmost atoll of the Tuamotu archipelago. To the six Scandinavian scientists on the Kon-Tiki, the smudge of land was proof of their theory that ancient, pre-Inca Indians might have traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing...