Word: squalus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newsman Crockett scored his first big beat: in a small lobster boat he sailed 15 rough miles out in the Atlantic, to get the first details of the sinking of the submarine Squalus off Portsmouth...
Presently the O-8 and the O10 reappeared. The O-9 did not. That afternoon, the Navy announced that she was missing. Then, in the same waters where the Squalus vanished two years ago (saved: 33; lost: 26), another drama of succor unfolded. The salvage boat Falcon, with divers who had gone down to the Squalus at 240 feet, had labored there at the peril of their lives; other submarines, destroyers, tugs, airplanes, searchlights when night fell-all were there...
When the submarine Squalus was finally raised and beached, the U. S. Navy's salvage job was not finished. The salvagers wanted to save the hull and especially the Diesel "engines from seawater corrosion. To do so they tried a new liquid chemical called Tectyl. Last week at the National Chemical Exposition in Chicago, Tectyl was shown to the public for the first time...
Tectyl 511, which makes a film .0003 inch thick, is the kind that elbows aside sea water, was used to flush the Squalus. It worked so well that the Navy uses it now for a great variety of corrosion-fighting jobs...
...recordings, the men & events that made 1939 a momentous year in history. Listeners heard the quivering voice of Tom Mooney, free at last in the California sun. They listened to a Cavalier officer's clipped story of his ship's disaster, thrilled to the drama of the Squalus rescue work. They heard a new Pope proclaimed. They heard three men launch a war. And, as conductor of this medley of events, they heard the cool, trenchant voice of Raymond Gram Swing, MBS's one-man brain trust on world affairs, U. S. radio's "find...