Word: torpedoed
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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...
...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...
...Shearer appeared on the Washington scene in 1924 as a naval expert, the inventor of a one-man torpedo. When the U. S. S. Washington was towed off the Virginia Capes for sinking by airplane bombs, he rushed into court, vainly sought an injunction to prevent the Navy from destroying this vessel under the terms of Washington Arms Treaty. Later he admitted that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Anglophobe, had paid the cost of that empty exploit...
...Henry Hopkins Sibley his design for an Army tent, was upheld last week by Justice Wendell Holmes Stafford of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who directed the Government to pay Rear-Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske, retired, $198,500 or $500 each for 397 naval airplanes now using a torpedo-discharging device originally Fiske-designed, Fiske-patented...
...Admiral Fiske suggested that torpedoes be shot from airplanes, was ignored, went ahead on his own, a year later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...