Word: diversion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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1) Why were the six survivors in the torpedo room not immediately safeguarded, when divers first reached the 54, by attaching airlines to the ship's "ears" (S. C. Tubes), as was done when too late, instead of to the ballast tanks, as was done at first?
Looking harassed and anxious, Secretary Wilbur spent Christmas even seeing and hearing more for himself at Provincetown. He ordered the S-4 to be salvaged straightway. The divers tunneled under the S-4 in two places, to attach lifting chains. The Atlantic raged, delaying the work.
Oil on Water. Simon Lake of New Milford, Conn., submarine inventor, advised dumping oil on the waves to flatten them and permit divers to go down; also, telling the six survivors to keep their heads as high as possible in the torpedo room since carbon dioxide is heavier than air...
If a voter does not signify the required number of candidates for each office, the votes cast by him for that office will be completely discarded. This rule has been made necessary to avoid possible errors in counting the votes for the divers candidates for each office.
The digging students had heard about John P. Holland, Paterson schoolteacher who, more than a half century ago, helped develop submarine navigation from an affair of iron or copper tubs driven by handscrews to a science of military importance. They had heard how he ventured down under the Passaic River...