Word: draught
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Cecil Brown parted reluctantly from a brand-new pair of shoes, jumped into the oily water and swam hard to avoid the down-draught of the huge vessel as she turned on her beam ends, lifted her ugly stern underparts, and sank. From the water he saw the Wales, torpedoed and afire, slowly go down...
...Isthmian Steamship Co.'s Black Eagle was probably halfway from Manila to Honolulu when the Navy's order came, at once made haste under forced draught. Loaded to the scuppers with rubber, tin, other strategic materials, she would be a fat prize in anyone...
...completely forgotten-as 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...
...Shreve did not believe the deep-draught New Orleans would long ride over the Mississippi snags. And could she travel upstream against the current? Even Fulton had his doubts. He wrote: "I do not see by what means a boat containing 100 tons of merchandise can be driven six miles an hour in still water. . . ." He offered $100,000 for the patent on a boat that could...
...representative of the girls college which was caught in the draught last week escaped to Cambridge over the weekend but was returned to her liquidless haunts last night without accomplishing her mission...