Word: ship
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Howard Hughes Bet. Why had an experienced naval officer allowed this condition to exist? Johnson had been lulled into complacency by many factors. His principal argument was wholly unrelated to strategy or circumstance. No U.S. Navy ship, declared Johnson, had been captured in peacetime in 150 years. Thus, in his view, Pueblo's seizure was "highly improbable"-regardless of the belligerent mood of North Korea. "I would suggest," said Johnson, "that a bookmaker would give you such fantastic odds [against the possibility of capture] that someone as rich as Howard Hughes could not pay it off." Admitting that...
...Seawind sailboat that is advertised by the Allied Boat Co. of Catskill, N.Y., as capable of "crossing an ocean if you will." After a year of preparation, Eddy decided he was ready to do just that. So he set sail in the wake of Joshua Slocum, the retired trading-ship captain who took off from Boston in a 37-ft. converted oyster boat back in 1895 and returned three years later as the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehanded...
Mildred finally died an unnatural death one summer when Mia was six and the family was aboard a ship. Recalls her mother, "I said to Mia, 'I tell you what we're going to do. We're going to drown Mildred.' So we theoretically put Mildred overboard into the Irish Sea, and we drowned her. We never did see Mildred again." Not in that form, anyway...
...Isle of Wight. It was a monotonous mission for the crew of the coastal mine sweeper, but it may well prove momentous for the commercial fleets and navies of the world. During those test runs, the British Admiralty said last week, a versatile chemical helped the little ship to cut its normal fuel consumption by 15% and to reach speeds higher than it had ever before attained...
...nosed through the water, the Highburton intermittently spewed a dilute solution of water and polyethylene oxide through vertical slots near its bow. As the solution washed back, it lubricated the hull, reducing friction between the water and the moving ship by about 20%. Thus less power was needed for driving the ship forward, fuel requirements were reduced, and speed increased...