Word: torpedo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief sponsor for this motorway was Lester P. Barlow of Stamford, Conn., President of N. Y. & N. E. M. Corp. Mr. Barlow once invented a flying torpedo which according to his specifications, giant motors would drive 225 m. p. h. for 1,000 miles to discharge 500 Ib. of TNT. More practicable, less lethal was the plan Mr. Barlow lately drew up and presented to President Hoover for a system of private turnpikes linking all major U. S. cities. Last week Mr. Barlow assembled at his Stamford home his friends and supporters, outlined his plans for local cooperation on this...
Citizen Flamm then announced that he has devised an "invisible torpedo," that is to say, one which leaves no tell-tale wake of air bubbles. Many a ship was saved during the War when its lookouts spotted the wake of an approaching torpedo and the wheel was instantly spun to swerve the ship. With an "invisible" torpedo-presumably one propelled by some other means than compressed air-the first warning of attack would be the actual explosion of the torpedo...
...course the Fatherland is still allowed to fire torpedoes from his surface war boats. In Stettin last week the commander of the 6,000 ton cruiser Karlsruhe offered 500 marks reward ($120) for the return of two torpedoes lost by him in recent Baltic Sea torpedo practice...
...that-and another whittles a boat out of a chip of wood to play with in the water that will drown him. On the plunging surface of the water up above, rescuers get to work, and one by one the members of the crew are shot out of a torpedo tube until only a single man is left, and he has a reason for staying. Men Without Women was written by Director John Ford, James McGuinness and Dudley Nichols. The title was bought from Author Ernest Hemingway...