Word: searchingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...skippered by Ned Heard, veteran of Sir Thomas Lipton's challengers. Endeavour II by 58-year-old George Williams. After three days Viva returned to Newport to announce that Endeavour I had once again snapped her towline-this time in a hurricane gale. After a week of frenzied search by the U. S. Coast Guard, Lloyd's of London announced that she had been sighted by the British tanker Amastra 750 miles off the Azores, tolled its historic Lutine Bell at the good news. But from the Amastra by radio came a prompt and puzzling denial. Four days...
...Search Begun...
After 23 days at sea, during which time they had been ashore only at the Hawaiian islands, the search was abandoned. It was abandoned partly because the order came to that effect and partly because, according to Chase, "the sailors wanted very much to go ashore...
...their Government, were putting on pressure to force a Japanese reply by suddenly refusing to discount the sterling bills of Japanese exporters. Whether or not this was being done, Japanese Premier Prince Konoye meanwhile scared the British Admiralty to issue instructions to unescorted British merchantmen, bidding them submit to search by Japanese warships if challenged in Chinese waters. The Admiralty saved as much face as possible by adding that after such a search the Japanese warship concerned "must" report its findings to the Admiralty, as must also the searched British merchantman...
...time 21½ hours) Mattern's plane roared into Washington, D. C. Next day, with his report and dozens of photographs-including one of his Ford refueler flat on its back three miles from Fairbanks-he stepped briskly up the steps of the Soviet Embassy to discourage further search, to ask for $25,000 compensation for his wrecked ship. The Embassy differed widely with Mattern on his methods of search, Arctic conditions and the value of his damaged plane, expressed sharp displeasure at his failure to find the Red flyers. To his request for reimbursement under the contract...