Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first shipment of surgical dressings has gone forward on an unnamed ship. Women-in local chapters throughout the nation have begun the manufacture of layettes, operating gowns, hospital accessories...
...Churchill stated that no British ships had been molested during the last week. This statement is true, if Mr. Churchill does not regard the sinking of a ship as molestation." *A large proportion of Sweden's normal annual 8,000,000 tons of iron ore for Germany comes from the ice-free port of Narvik on the Arctic Ocean and around down the Norway coast. This will be cut off by the British blockade...
Immediate result of all these new ship orders was a rush to put inefficient plants back to work-plants not used since World War I. Thus, American Ship and Commerce, an unappetizing Harriman affair, owes the U. S. Government $1,097,413.22 from World War I, and owes Philadelphia $1,229,608 in back taxes. It offered to settle for $100,000 apiece, got Attorney General Frank Murphy to agree provided it can become a going concern again, started reorganizing to open its moldy Cramp's yard in Philadelphia. On the west coast, where last spring...
...torpedoing of the freighter Royal Sceptre (see p. 34), in which it was said that, according to a message, all hands had drowned. Who then, Berlin asked, survived to send the message? After the BBC had fumbled with that for a time, Berlin sent its version: that another British ship, the Browning, had been spared by the U-boat commander to care for the Royal Sceptre's crew. Later, the Royal Sceptre crew turned up safe in Bahia, Brazil. Other Berlin hotfoots: reports that "fat City men" hustle through London's financial district with steel helmets concealed under...
...than in the other. He rotates the bar until the sound volume is equal in both ears; then the bar is perpendicular to the direction of the sound source. In antisubmarine practice, it was soon found impracticable to rotate the detector, whether attached to the hull of the patrol ship or towed behind. So the detector was kept stationary and the effect of rotation was obtained by lengthening the path from one receiver to one ear, shortening the other, until the sound volume was equal in both ears. This was called "binaural compensation...