Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feeling none too comfortable, the lookout reported to the radio man. The radio man laconically flashed the message ashore. Later on, the Coldwater's company discussed the matter at mess. It was no night, they agreed for airmen to be at sea...
Ashore, the Coldwater's wireless message caused mystification. From nowhere along the coast had a trans-Atlantic flight attempt been reported. Sometimes Navy flyers go far to sea from Hampton Roads, but not on dirty nights, and no Navy flyers were missing. No weather bureau had been asked for trans-Atlantic weather reports, or even for the weather between the U. S. and Bermuda (a flight which has never been made from west to east...
When no further reports came in, flyers said: "Probably some damn fool trying to be spectacular." But oldtime seamen had another theory: now that the sea has taken so many lives in airplanes, perhaps there is a Flying Dutchman of the Air; an outbound plane that mariners will hear and see sometimes, far at sea, on dirty nights for flying...
...diagnosed the situation, twc great oil generals were rubbing their hand; in anticipation of battle. One was Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, head of Royal Dutch Shell, who from across the sea has kept his eye upon the progress of Shell in the home grounds of Socony. The other was Charles F. Meyer, President of Socony who from a vantage point nearer at hand has watched and waited...
...ones reported combined profits of over $2,000,000, declared average dividends of 30%. Typical of the industry is the C. A. Larsen, biggest whaling boat (9,431 tons). Last year the C. A. Larsen, her hold filled with whale oil, tossed 500 tons of coal into the sea to make room for more oil, returned with a $1.000,000 cargo. Such trips paid off her construction cost in two years...