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This method is the official U.S. Navy system for salvaging submarines. It consists of sinking pontoons on either side of a sunken vessel, attaching chains under it, and pumping the air from the ship and pontoons. Captain Ellsberg said that the operation was simplified by the fact that the U.S.S. Monitor foundered in a gale, and was presumably undamaged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'USS Monitor Can Be Raised,' Says Top Underwater Salvaging Expert | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Divorced. Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, 47, chief of Scotland's Clan Campbell, who is currently engaged in the resurrection of a sunken 16th Century treasure ship ("I think the world is too drab; we could do with a little romance"-TIME May 15); by his second wife, Louise Clews Varreck Campbell, 45, who Charged adultery; after 15 years of marriage, two sons; in Edinburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 19, 1951 | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...Just below this upper level academic stork club can be found a more intimate and elegant dance for an extracurricular group with a social bent. Next door, amid the topography of Women Hall's Wheeler Room, a smoky and more Bacchanalian dance for a like minded organization fills the sunken garden with sounds evidencing that the "whole man" has arrived at the graduate school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greener Grass? | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

ABOARD PLANE OVER THE BAHAMAS, Oct. 25--Rumin Coak, hollowchested, sunken-eyed, eight-feet zombie from the mystic voodooland of Haiti, has agreed to replace Hu Flung Hucy ocC as CRIMSON prognosticator. He is already flying north with us, alongside this DC-4 clipper...

Author: By Radio TO The crimson, | Title: Rumin Coak, Untried Haitian Zombie, Steps Into Hu Flung's Shoes as Gridiron Expert | 10/26/1950 | See Source »

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Oct. 24)--A sunken-eyed zombie, burned for wizardry and dead for 76 years, is our hottest lead to date. He prognosticates hurricanes and mango blights in the thick voodoo country northeast of here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Late Flashes! Crimeds Cable News On Search for Seer | 10/25/1950 | See Source »

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