Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vessel was headed into a heavy norther which was tossing us around and filling the forward deck with four feet of water. We were carrying a shipment of 477 empty barrels on that deck, and they started to break loose and smash door knobs. . . . To save the ship from damage, we brought her around out of the wind so the crew could clear the deck and throw some of the barrels overboard. Irwin went on the forcastle head and watched the crew at work. But when the third officer headed the ship in the wind again, Irwin kept standing there...
Some three years I served in China, most of that time spent in duty with the Yangtze patrol, aboard the coal-burner Monocacy. Several times I have been aboard the Panay. There was not a cleaner ship in the U. S. Navy...
...Wright's first ambitious use of the cantilever principle, which allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed 8-ft. piles, distributing the weight evenly...
...panic that my refusal seemed to cause to my legation staff and to the officers of the ship made it quite clear to me what would have happened." said M. Barmine, explaining that he then left all his property and luggage in Athens, fled to France. "Perhaps," he continued, "I can get a job as a laborer in a French motor car factory." Last week he was temporarily saved from this necessity by an offer from the New York Times and North American Newspaper Alliance of a chance to write about the Government he served for 19 years...
...lens catches a Japanese plane diving to attack, while squinting gunners, one trouserless (see cut), try to stem the attack with antiquated 1917 Lewis machine guns. Both cameras show the crew running to emergency posts at the start of the raid, both film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving the ship, peer into the gaping holes in the Panay's armor, sweep over decks strewn with wreckage. Movietone's nine-minute release concentrates on the hardship of the survivors' overland escape to safety. Universal's 23-minute three-reeler also gives shots of sacked and burning Nanking...