Word: bulkheading
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Johannesburg to persuade the crusty British South African (DeBeers) diamond syndicate to step up its ailing sales with a U. S. advertising campaign. At Lumbo, Mozambique, his Imperial Airways flying boat smacked head-on into a jetty in landing, killing two passengers and flinging Adman Lauck against a bulkhead with such force that his pipe was split and a section driven an inch-deep into his tongue. Dumped into the harbor by a steward, he lost his life preserver, was rescued, later found the harbor was infested with sharks. Not until three months after he landed the $500,000 diamond...