Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor-men who fear restrictive legislation. But Dr. Copeland has succeeded best of all in turning his hearings into a rousing Red hunt. Indeed, he got so far afield that last fortnight his Committee voted out a resolution asking a special $50,000 Senate investigation of Reds on everything afloat, "merchant marine, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy...
...week Stoppani set out to fly back. Two hours from the coast of Brazil one of his motors failed, he turned back, dumped gasoline, promptly caught fire. He and four companions jumped, landed in a sea covered with flaming gasoline. When a rescue plane arrived only Stoppani was still afloat...
...sank the Panay, burned and sank three Standard Oil ships. Bursting with pride at having scored four hits the Japanese airmen immediately flashed news of what they had done to Japanese headquarters in Shanghai. Meanwhile, in the muddy, choppy Yangtze, passengers and crew of the U. S. vessels kept afloat as best they could until ships of the British flotilla came to the rescue. Of 72 persons believed to have been aboard the Panay, 63 had been rescued at latest reports, an American seaman and an Italian journalist had died, a total of 96 and possibly more were counted missing...
Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy is Franklin D. Roosevelt but Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, topranking sailor afloat, must be a truly professional seadog. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson recommended to Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt for approval before Feb. 1 a batch of Navy shifts and promotions, most important of which will give the Navy a new CINCUS. To replace 60-year-old Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, scheduled for commandant of the 12th Naval District with headquarters in San Francisco, Secretary Swanson named the present Commander of the Battle Force...
...Line was called Bay State Steamboat Co. in 1846 when it was chartered by a group of Boston and Fall River businessmen. In May 1847 the line got under way with the Massachusetts, chartered from the Providence Line, and the Bay State, brand new and considered the finest craft afloat on the coastal waters of the U. S. She was 315-ft. long, had a 1,500-h.p. beam engine. On her maiden voyage she encountered a rival boat of the Stonington Line, the Oregon, and in the race that ensued, the Bay State not only passed the other ship...