Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harbor. Curran's seamen sat down on the Munson Liner Munargo until three A. F. of L. radio operators were replaced. This was followed by a similar attempt on the New York & Cuba Mail liner Oriente, but a flying wedge 'of A. F. of L. rushed the ship, seized the radio cabin, locked in three of their own operators. The Oriente's sailing had to be canceled...
...commercial plane which is to be tested for such things as controllability. As the air rushes into the tunnel, the model takes off, flies completely free. Trailing from it is a thread-like copper wire through which the operator can control ailerons and rudders, see how the ship obeys them...
...recall what it felt like to fall off an aquaplane for the first time may also remember a twinge of loneliness at being abandoned, even briefly, in what may have seemed at the moment like a large waste of water. What would it feel like to fall off a ship in mid-Pacific? Few men have done such a thing, and fewer have lived to tell the tale, but many must have imagined themselves in such a terrifying predicament. With as much calm authority as though he had fallen overboard himself, Herbert Clyde Lewis tells just what it feels like...
...Arabella had been a bigger or a faster ship, Standish would doubtless have been pulled in by its suction, smashed by the propellers. As it was, he took quite a buffeting before he popped up in the Arabella's wake. At first he was not at all alarmed, simply embarrassed. He shouted, but nobody heard him. But he knew that on such a small ship his absence would soon be noted; the water was pleasantly lukewarm; he was a strong swimmer and could float indefinitely; he knew there were no sharks in those latitudes. "Just the same...
...sure enough, Standish's absence was discovered, and the ship put about to look for him. It would make her a day late in Panama, but duty was duty. As the calm narrative steams slowly towards its climax the suspense in which Author Lewis dangles his hero and the reader grows more excruciating...