Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government aid stagnant German export-import firms by permitting them to discharge superfluous employes (illegal under the Nazi job-protection laws); by letting them use "rent free" the Government warehouses in which German clogged exports are now piling up; and by directly providing "necessary capital to keep them afloat." If all this is done, "then we need not fear for our foreign trade," concluded Economist Helfferich. "The German trader may, with his inherent acumen, find new business possibilities, perhaps new pathways to his old territories overseas...
...designed to become harmless after breaking away from their anchorages, as required by international convention. Certainty came when, driven by gales, mines of German make washed ashore in quantities along the British North Sea coast and in Belgium, bashing into piers and bulkheads with savage detonations, frightful flotsam set afloat by the nation whose leader promised that Britain would now be spoken to "in language she can understand...
...business in Passaic, N. J. During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business by short-wave radio. His greatest ambition: to have his three living sons and son-in-law, all in his employ, keep up the Forstmann wool dynasty...
...Royal is Great Britain's newest 22,000-ton aircraft carrier. Her loss, eight days after the torpedoing of the Courageous, would be a horrible blow to British morale as well as to the Navy. If she were still afloat, the British Admiralty was not tricked into telling where the Ark Royal was, but did announce she was "safe & sound at her allotted station." Admiral Sir Charles Forbes, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet, dismissed the North Sea bombing as a slight episode and observed that it was done from "really too great a height-some...
...publicize Thunder Afloat, M.G.M. released a short on David Bushnell (see p. 44), the 18th-Century U. S. inventor credited with being the father of the submarine and the underwater explosive which is still one of the most effective weapons against it. During the Revolution he built an oaken submarine with which unsuccessful attempts were made to screw bombs onto the hulls of British warships in Boston Harbor, off Governor's Island, and in the Delaware River above Philadelphia. His "torpedo" (an oaken magazine enclosing 150 Ibs. of gunpowder) went off harmlessly. Too frail to operate the soon discredited...