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Three hours after she had submerged, the Thetis was nowhere to be seen and her accompanying tug, which had lost contact with her, wirelessed ashore: "Something is amiss." A few uneasy relatives of the crew began to gather at the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., builders of the Thetis. A flotilla of salvage ships, warships, tugs and submarines set out from ports from Birkenhead all the way round the bottom of England to Portsmouth. Royal Air Force planes soared the skies. All were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface...
...plots until they had no time left for collective farming, were letting hay rot in the collective meadows. Others were renting their plots, breaking the first Communist commandment by turning landlords. More serious was Pravda's admission that peasants were deserfing many farms. Furious at the never-ending tug-of-war, the Kremlin thundered a rigid new decree restricting all peasant garden plots, setting drastic penalties for collective farm managers who leased land illegally...
Train, bus, tug, trawler, clipper with bellied sail...
...order to scare the patient out of a fit Dr. Schwab has rigged up a purloined tug-boat whistis near the patient. When this whistle blows, the patient is quits effectively scared back into consciousness...
...Tug-Boat Whistle Used