Word: ship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three shipbuilding companies promptly issued denials. Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem Ship-building which built the cruiser Northampton launched last week (see col. 2), said Lobbyist Shearer's suit was "without merit." Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News Co. which built the cruiser Houston also launched last week, said that his company had never employed "Shearer or any one else to oppose disarmament." Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) said the suit was "wholly unsupported by the facts...
...Navy, and the Houston, second of its name, are the sixth and seventh of eight light cruisers authorized in 1924, laid down in 1928. Six hundred feet long, 65 feet broad, displacing 10,000 tons, they carry nine 8-inch guns, three to a turret. Each ship will be manned by 597 officers...
...Commodore Marries. There is a theory, generally despised, that reality has nothing to do with bread and butter, and that if a man calls his house a ship and gets up in the night to reef his unreal sails against a storm he may still be less mad than most men and better off. Such a man was Commodore Trunnion...
...that," said Commodore Trunnion. "Why not?" asked his wife. "Because I'm not mad," said the Commodore. "Prove it," said Mrs. Trunnion. And this he could not do. Instead, he put her off his ship, made her walk the plank in fact, and went back to his old way of living with Hatchways, his mate, and Fawcett, an able seaman...
...Seville, which will be useful when the Germans establish their Europe-South America Zeppelin line. But some passengers were vexed at the out-of-the-way delay. Their nerves were jumpy because one Frederick S. Hogg, retired Mount Vernon, N. Y., businessman, had smoked a cigar in the ship's lavatory. One spark might have blown up her hydrogen lifting gas. Some of the other passengers wanted Passenger Hogg imprisoned. Capt. Lehmann only reprimanded him, took his cigars and pocket lighter ignominiously away. The ship made the Lakehurst-Friedrichshafen trip in 67 hours. Her time around the world from Friedrichshafen...