Word: nantucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the New England manufacturing towns that lie between Boston and New Bedford, and the harbor looked cold and grey to him as he crossed over the bridge to Fairhaven and pulled through winding slum streets to the yacht yard. The yard looked mournful, too: several fishermen from Nantucket, old home of the whalers, were tied up at the quay making repairs before going out onto winter waters, while many a boat that he knew under clouds of white canvas he hardly recognized as they lay all bare of rigging, nestled together in cradles under a tin shed...
...subsidiary of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., the Fall River Line had been losing money ever since 1931. The Providence Line and the New Bedford Line were abandoned earlier this year. The railroad was continuing only its Fall River and New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Lines, and had planned to let Fall River give up the ghost after this summer. When the National Maritime Union, C. I. O. affiliate, started a series of crippling strikes, the company replied with an order to halt operations. Technically the order was one of "temporary suspension" but General Manager...
...Coast & Geodetic Survey is getting started this year on an undersea mapping project which will require three to six years, from the Delaware Capes to Nantucket. Assisting the Oceanographer are three small vessels: the Lydonia, which is doing inshore work in water as shallow as five fathoms; and the Gilbert and Welker, which serve as station ships to keep the Oceanographer constantly able to find its position within a quarter-mile. This is done by discharging TNT bombs from the mapping ship; the sound is picked up by hydrophones on the two station ships and automatically sent back by radio...
...some 200,000 more to & from the U. S. and Canada, sank one German submarine, repelled seven others, rescued the crew of the sinking H. M. S. Audacious. Converted to oil after the Armistice, she settled down in the transatlantic run, where she again made news by sinking the Nantucket Lightship last year (TIME...
...dredging was done on Georges Bank, about 120 miles east of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, under the direction of Henry C. Stetson, Research Associate in Palaeontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology. The dredging work will be continued this summer in the Hudson River submarine channel off New York Harbor and in the submarine valleys off the Maryland coast...