Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached 50,000 ft., then another at 10,000 ft. It sizzled into the ocean at a gentle 20 m.p.h., 20 min. after takeoff, still beeping its signals. Homing planes quickly zeroed in on Big Joe's position, radioed the nearest destroyer, and within 8 hr. the recovery ship hove to, plucked the capsule...
...SHIP-CONSTRUCTION BONDS guaranteed by U.S. will be marketed by American President Lines to aid in building two 13,250 D.W.T. cargo ships. First of its type, the $14.4 million offering is expected to lead way for $1 billion in new maritime bonds...
...Harm's Way." Born John Paul, the man who won fame as John Paul Jones went to sea at 13, by 21 was master of a merchant ship in the West Indies trade. But at the port of Scarborough, Tobago, in 1773, he got into a savage shipboard brawl with mutinous seamen, ran one through the body with his sword, and fled for his life. He assumed the name of John Jones, sailed to America, and at the outbreak of the Revolution, under the name John Paul Jones, offered his services to the Continental Navy...
...obscure Scottish sailor newly arrived in America, Jones did well enough: he successively commanded the sloop Providence, ship Alfred and sloop of war Ranger. But Jones was far from satisfied: infuriated at being placed No. 18 on the captains' seniority list, he flailed out in all directions, made enemies in high places, goaded his men to the point of mutiny...
...perhaps as much to get rid of him as anything else, Congress authorized Paul Jones to sail Ranger to France and there seek a ship more to his liking. While searching, Jones in Ranger conducted raids on the English and Scottish coasts and became the terror of the British Isles. After more than a year, Jones found a ship in which he could, as he put it, "go in harm's way": Le Due de Duras, a twelve-year-old East Indiaman renamed Bonhomme Richard after the Poor Richard of his friend Benjamin Franklin...