Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven-year-old Class J sloop Yankee, thrice-thwarted America's Cup candidate, originally built by a syndicate of Bostonians at a cost of $500,000, was turned over to a Fall River ship-junking firm. The $10,000 he will get for her bronze plating and lead ballast will be given to the Commodore of London's Royal Thames Yacht Club toward the purchase of a British fighting plane...
...those who read the French-language Swiss press. "These are the prophets of disaster, the professional alarmists, the convinced pessimists, the empty brains and the sour stomachs who still exist among us here and there." Referring to Benito Mussolini's recent order to jettison "the remaining petty bourgeois ballast," Popolo di Roma suggested that nothing remained but to begin...
...perhaps as satisfactory a course in Robinson Crusoc economics as can be found. If furnishes that whole set of "tools of analysis," of sweeping assumptions and jargon, which the student will find indispensable ballast as he goes on in economics. The non-concentrators, however--and by requirement of the Division they are numerous in the course--are left with their tools in mid-air, without the slightest hope of ever touching the ground of reality. To carry out its dual function with justice to all, Ec A could profitably use more case material, and risk an occasional reference to government...
...Carnarvon Castle, hit 22 times, with seven dead, 24 wounded and one hole so near her water line that ballast had to be shifted to make her list away from it, plowed into Montevideo, just ten days before the anniversary of the sinking of the Graf Spee. On the way in she passed a British battle squadron in hot pursuit of the Nazi...
Last week the Plunkett, Gilmer and Paul Jones asked identity and destination of two more vessels off Tampico, this time Latin-American merchantmen: the Mexican tanker Cerro Azul, inbound in ballast on a coastwise trip, and the Honduran freighter Ceiba out of New Orleans. In a story from Tampico smelling rankly of Nazi propaganda it was reported that the ships were boarded by U. S. sailors, their captains questioned, their papers checked, their cargo registries examined...