Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harbor at Juneau is indeed ice-free, but not the shore. Icy shorelines make it difficult to land planes for maintenance. Such conditions decided Pan American to shift its New York terminus on the Bermuda run from Port Washington, L. I. to ice-free Baltimore. For the same reason, Pan American will use land planes at Juneau...
...dived again & again, spraying the downed plane with machine-gun bullets. The transport's crew and passengers went overboard into the river and the Japanese planes fired on them in the water, continuing the work of extermination. Pilot Woods was carried away by a swift current and reached shore in safety. Radio Operator Joe Loh and a passenger, Chinese Civil Servant C. N. Lou, with a bullet in his neck, also escaped. Two days later, while the British gunboat Cicala stood by, Chinese extricated three bullet-riddled bodies from the transport, sunk in 40 feet of water. Among...
...Asiatic Fleet, asked Japanese sanction. Last week Vice Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, Commander-in-Chief of Japan's China Fleet, firmly refused. His reasons: 1) possible interference with Japanese naval strategy; 2) the Monocacy might strike a Chinese mine; 3) the gunboat might be mistakenly fired upon by Japanese shore batteries, producing another Panay type incident; 4) the Japanese consider the recently captured Matung boom below Kuikiang "a prize of war" which no U. S. ship has a right to pass. But despite Japanese officiousness, Admiral Yarnell knows his nation's rights. Early this week the gunboat Oahu...
...Going through Hell Gate Channel in the East River, the purser told them there were no more staterooms. Mr. Charlton demanded the captain turn back. Captain Pendelton demurred. Mr. Charlton took off his hat. coat and shoes. "Come on, Claire," he shouted, jumped overboard, struck out for shore through treacherous currents where many a man has drowned. Impressed, Captain Pendelton ordered the Comet pulled up at North Brother Island, let Mrs. Charlton off, telephoned for a police launch to take her back. Meanwhile, her determined husband was picked up by a passing motor boat...
...press (which for the first time in 19 days met him last week aboard the U. S. S. Houston at Balboa, C. Z.) two stories that in Ulysses' day would certainly have been referred to the oracles for interpretation: 1) At Galápagos, on shore leave, seamen from the Houston beheld two huge hawks swooping down upon a herd of wild goats. Each hawk seized a kid in its talons, started to flap away. Hurling stones at the hawks, the sailors made them drop the kids, which they took aboard the Houston as gifts...