Word: watertight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well-informed TIME tell if all the watertight doors in our Navy are manually operated? Has the new $90,000,000 battleship Washington got to depend on a few heroes if she is hit below the water line...
...roared from opened ballast tank vents, water rushed in to take its place. On the control board-called "the Christmas tree" because of its numerous red and green lights-lights flashed, showing Prien that the air induction valves, which carried air to the engine rooms, were closed and watertight. Down planed the Squalus. As the depth gauge showed nearly 50 ft., she began to level...
...that door. He had it almost closed when voices from the rapidly filling battery room screamed: "Keep it open! Keep it open!" Maness let the door fall back, counted five men who struggled through. Then as the water rushed toward the door, he swung it shut, clamped down the watertight screw, and turned his back. He had done his duty, had locked 26 men in the flooded compartments. One of them was Sherman Shirley, who was to have been married the next Sunday, with Maness as best...
...weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show her course, kites for an emergency radio aerial, a shotgun and fishing tackle in case she piled up on a coral reef, enough food for 15 people for a month...
...virtual monopoly, for commercial use in German Zeppelins. In Washington, Secretary Ickes, charged with exacting a German guarantee that the gas would be used only for peaceful purposes, let it be known that he was holding up shipment because he could find no way of drawing up a sufficiently watertight contract...