Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cunard White Star Line kept this great name afloat, lest others filch...
...vivid and varied spectacle, the Aquacade Revue is almost certain to win first place in the Fair's entertainment list. Ashore, Crooners Frances Williams and Morton Downey blare out tunes good & bad while hordes of gay, limbsome "aquafemmes" prance and promenade. Afloat Swimmers Eleanor Holm and Johnny Weissmuller do a kind of aquatic waltz to music while "aquabelles" and "aquabeaux" weave patterned water ballets. A water tumbler (whom Billy Rose forgot to call an aquabat) gets laughs from the water, while four custard-pie pantomimists get laughs on land. The revue finally explodes into a patriotissimic finale, featuring...
...working capital last July, the old and often shaky Boston Transcript (circulation 29,423) asked its employes for 10% non-interest-bearing salary loans. The loans, however, were not enough to keep it afloat. Last week an attachment of its accounts by a $29,500 creditor forced the Transcript to go into U. S. District Court, petition for 77B reorganization-its second shake-up in two years...
When last week's deal was negotiated, eleven Dollar ships were laid up, only four were in commission. To get them afloat again, the Maritime Commission will make a loan of $1,500,000, and get an RFC loan of $2,500,000 for working capital, grant a five-year operating subsidy of some $3,000,000 a year. To the Commission goes all the line's Class B stock (2,100,000 shares), almost half of its 252,000 shares of Class A stock. Six months after the transfer, the Commission will abandon the Dollar name...
Chief Pilot Verne W. Harshman, naval aviator on maneuvers off the coast of Colombia in 1931, was forced down by bad weather, kept afloat on his CO2-filled raft five days. Only trouble he encountered was sharks, which were attracted by the raft's color (orange-yellow for high visibility). Result: the navy changed the color of life-rafts' bottoms to olive drab...