Word: tapscott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile stockholders of Consolidated Edison Co. learned what the dimout has done to their business in New York City, where there is little war production. Reported Edison President Ralph H. Tapscott: the dark streets of New York will cut a round $10,000,000 from the company's gross revenues this year-almost 5% of its electricity sales for last year...
...rowed and rowed westward, under a maddening heat. On the tenth day, the wireless operator died. Four men jumped overboard. Only men alive after 25 days were Able Seamen Wilbert Roy Widdicombe, 24, and Robert George Tapscott...
They saw two ships pass, and signaled frantically but without avail. They fought to keep hold of their minds. Widdicombe broke off his front teeth trying to eat his shoes. Tapscott spent most of the time torpid in the boat's bottom...
Somehow he roused Tapscott, and somehow-he never knew-they guided their boat to land. It was the 70th day. The island was Eleuthera, in the Bahamas, over 2,500 miles from where they had abandoned ship. A farmer and his wife, who saw the empty boat on the beach and followed the tracks, found them nearby...
...last week Seaman Tapscott, a thin-featured blond fellow now weighing more than 170 pounds, was ready once more for action. A few days after he received his pay check for the 70 days he spent in the open boat, he left Nassau for Canada. There he meant to enlist...