Word: towing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote of the Faculty passed January 19, and made public last might it has been decided that those candidates for the degree with distinction whose work in their first two years at college has been satisfactory may be given the privilege of dropping tow of the courses usually required and be allowed to carry only three courses in their Junior and three in the Senior year. This vote comes as an extension of the privilege passed by vote of the Faculty in May 1924, which provided that candidates for the degree with distinction might, under certain conditions, drop...
...expected to adopt the latter course. All the rest must be scrapped. He has the privilege of salvaging any machinery he can, for use in his own factories. Following the purchase Mr. Mayo offered $40,000 apiece for seven ocean-going tugs, ISO feet long, with which to tow his purchases to his wrecking yards (probably most of the ships will be scrapped at Detroit). The Shipping Board asked $42,500 apiece for the tugs, and Mr. Mayo agreed-a strange commentary on the value of the ships, that the tugs to tow them should be worth individually -nearly five...
...Strike of the Masters, Mates and Pilots' Association at Baltimore became effective. The 640 members of this association work the harbor tugs and tow boats. They demanded a raise from 56.7 to 80? per hour for masters and from 37 to 65? for mates. Ship owners declared that, in many cases, as long as fair weather prevailed, they could get their ships in and out of port without tugs...
Congress ought to declare a closed season on all Army and Navy officers. Ridiculing their pronunciamentos has become so common a sport of late that the zest has quite gone out of it. Yesterday's news, however, contained tow examples, far better even than usual, of the strange theories that result when the soldier takes to statesmanship...
...peaceful two-hour cruise over the city. When the time finally came for the ceremonies, the ZR3 misbehaved disgracefully. Six hours flight had made a dent in the fuel supply carried on board, and the huge dirigible was too light and buoyant. Several hundred sailors hanging on heavy tow lines could not haul her down, and when one of the tow lines snapped, to the discomfiture of the straining gobs, she sailed off again. Admiral Moffett was obliged to give radio orders for release of some of the precious helium, before the ship could be maneuvered into position against...