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...ordinary seaman was sitting on deck reading a book when it happened. The explosion shook a hatch beam loose; the beam cut off four of his toes. The third assistant engineer, below, was brained by falling deck plates...
...made my point-I'm glad it turned out this way. . . . The people I met were no more ignorant or ignoble than ordinary men. Some of them taught me a lot. I learned how to palm a deck of cards, how to cook spaghetti and even some valuable information on radium from a man who was jailed on confidence-game charges." Grinding out its grist for the Army, the draft struck some other strange sparks...
...Henry Shreve, Mississippi keelboatman, who, by the time he was 35: 1) broke Pittsburgh's monopoly of the fur trade; 2) broke Canada's monopoly of the Western lead trade; 3) broke the Livingston-Fulton monopoly of steamboating on the Mississippi with his shallow-draught, double-deck river steamboat; 4) made navigation safe by inventing a snag-pulling boat with which he cleared some 1,500 miles of river; 5) opened up the Red River to civilization...
...will be necessary to rob the navy for gun crews and some guns, and to use a large quantity of World War weapons. The drain on the Navy, the complete inadequacy of the training of the Merchant Marine for combat, and, in many cases, the unsuitability of the deck structure for gun platforms, all form strong arguments against the dangerous and useless gesture of arming our merchant ships...
...when in World War I the Royal Navy drafted him at 32, it did not put him on the bridge of a warship. Instead, he found himself on the "front porch" of an openwork biplane, learning to fly, then teaching himself the dangerous art of taking off from the deck of a merchantman. From this kind of makeshift carrier, Flight Commander Bowhill flew on the first bombing against the German Navy in World...