Word: shipboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immense recoil and recuperator gear; fourth, incidental equipment of the gun; and fifth, the gun barrel which appeared to be some 45 feet long with a calibre of ten inches. A retired naval officer of a Great Power exclaimed: "I have seen plenty of guns like that on shipboard, but I have never before seen one dragged through the streets...
Lectures on Shipboard...
Open to both men and women students, the course will include daily intermal lectures by Conant on shipboard and at historic stopping places...
...General Parran of the Public Health Service comfortably announced: "It is not believed by Public Health Service quarantine officers that the west coast seaports of the United States are likely to become infected, for the reason that, since the incubation period of cholera is only five days, outbreaks on shipboard will occur and the disease will become manifest long before a ship from infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted for carriers whenever indicated. Ships from cholera-infected areas...
Both these shipboard estimates may be correct, but to millions of citizens on the sidelines, the 1937 struggles between Labor & Capital continued to feel last week like a fierce civic and economic headache, and in the participants on both sides, last week's developments intensified a mood of bitter, uncompromising belligerence...