Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shell's nose, which detonates it when it strikes its target, had exploded prematurely. When the smoke cleared, the captain and three members of the Marine gun crew were dead, three others lay dying, ten were injured. The 26-year-old Wyoming, demilitarized and used as a training ship since the London Naval Armament Limitation Conference of 1930, is the Navy's second oldest battleship. A court of inquiry promptly met to investigate the Navy's second fatal explosion on the San Clemente training grounds within seven months. The Navy's most disastrous explosion along...
...Princeton delegates went to the Purser to see how many of them there should be on board. An officer remarked that those Harvard men looked pretty rested after their vacation. At 9:30 o'clock the ship was finally cleared of its cargo...
...chorus but itching John Rorke was responsible. The chance had been too good, the moment too irresistibly apt, for his British sense of humor. Within 30 seconds every telephone line into the modernistic, ship-shaped B. B. C. Building was jammed with the furious complaints of British radio listeners who had never before heard "Mrs. Simpson'' uttered on the air. The Duke of Windsor in his B. B. C. abdication broadcast called her simply "the woman I love." Almost instantaneously last week a B. B. C. technician had cut the broadcast, but just too late...
...three miles out the plane began banking to the right in the logical maneuver to approach the East-West runway. Suddenly watchers saw it slide into a 45° dive. Instant later it vanished behind a dike between field and bay. There came a tremendous "wham" as the ship plunged...
...dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship routine, two catchy tunes to convey tropic abandon. Critics suspected that H. P. contained more South American hotcha than it did authentic Indian music...