Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took the water, 42 naval officers were graduated from the Navy's special submarine school at New London, Conn., to help man this growing arm of national defense...
...quiet, gelid sea, the Fort Victoria listed further and further to starboard until only seasoned Captain Albert R. Francis, his pilot, and a skeleton crew of twelve vigorous pumpers remained on board. An attempt was made to tow the foundering vessel to shore, but at length the bubbling water closed over it. Captain Francis and Pilot Frank Moran, last to slide down one horizontal side, were hauled by rescuers out of the Fort Victoria's sinking whorl. All the crew and 255 passengers-everyone aboard-had been saved without accident except a fainting spell which overcame a Mrs. Nellie...
...Flood waters swelled the Thames three miles wide in Buckinghamshire. Eton College closed, its playing fields eight feet under water...
Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker. vice-president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., said that the plan would be feasible, except for certain changes in the building construction, other officials thought that it might necessitate the dumping of tons of airship ballast water, provisions for which would have to be made. Helium Co. of Louisville, Ky., has developed for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. a mobile plant for the purification of the precious...
Rescue Machinery. Hampered for weeks by fog over open water in the Bering Strait, the rescue machinery assembled to deliver Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, lost since Nov. 9 (TIME, Dec. 9), began to rustle last week with activity in Nome, Alaska...