Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican Convention this week, hoped for quick adjournment next week by the simple process of putting on ice all legislation which has not yet passed both Houses. Major measures slated for discard under this plan were the Wagner Housing bill, substitute Guffey Coal bill, Copeland Ship Subsidy and Pure Food & Drug bills. By the same principle, at week's end, only remaining "musts" were taxes and Relief. Easy agreement was expected on the Relief (First Deficiency) appropriation bill, which had just gone to conference. Only real threat to adjournment plans was the possibility of a prolonged conference wrangle over...
...midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape, 75 miles farther on, drops anchor to give its passengers a chance to swim in the warm water, pick flowers, stare at the flat-faced Lapps. The town is not much to see, standing in a few clumps of transplanted birches on a barren...
Some 100 miles southeast of Sandy Hook one day last fortnight the master of the Oceanographer and his officers gathered in the chartroom, as wide-eyed as though they were actually witnessing an undersea marvel. This U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey ship is equipped with the latest type of echo-recorder, a device which automatically measures the depth of water by the time required for a sound to travel to the bottom and bounce back. The depth appears continuously on a dial and the profile of the sea floor is translated to a chart. Scrawled before the Oceanographer...
...Oceanographer's master, Commander Harry A. Seran, believes that his work will provide one more aid for fog-bound liners coming into New York harbor. A ship equipped with an echo-sounder could pick up the gorge 130 miles out, follow it all the way in to Ambrose Channel...
...year on an undersea mapping project which will require three to six years, from the Delaware Capes to Nantucket. Assisting the Oceanographer are three small vessels: the Lydonia, which is doing inshore work in water as shallow as five fathoms; and the Gilbert and Welker, which serve as station ships to keep the Oceanographer constantly able to find its position within a quarter-mile. This is done by discharging TNT bombs from the mapping ship; the sound is picked up by hydrophones on the two station ships and automatically sent back by radio. The elapsed time is proportional...