Word: steamer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family) went into receivership in July 1931 with a total plant and equipment account of $2,565. As late as 1935, the company's total sales were only $87,000. But the next year the U.S. Engineers Corps gave him an order for two river steamer inspection boats. By 1939, A.J. was making Eurekas not only for the U.S. Navy, but for the British and Finland (he was made Finland's New Orleans consul, for "services rendered"). Last year his sales were over $1,000,000 a month. His new City Park Avenue plant- "the largest boat-building...
...sidekick gave up, Kelly waited 36 hours before he tossed him overboard. "After that," he said, "I laid down and tried to make myself comfortable, hoping that I could die without any more trouble." He was lying there waiting for death when the lifeboat muzzled into a small steamer. His open-boat voyage had lasted 21 days...
Fleeing from Poland to Italy and then through a war-torn France to Lisbon and the America-bound steamer "Excambion," Waclaw Lednicki, visiting professor of Slavonic literature has managed to keep one precarious step ahead of the Gestapo...
...Focke-Wulf s attacked him and Pilot Officer Richard Lewis while they were harrying a Nazi steamer. One of the Focke-Wulfs riddled Finucane's plane and wounded him in the leg and thigh. By radio he ordered Lewis to run for home. Lewis disobeyed. He hovered behind Finucane's tail, fought off repeated Focke-Wulf attacks. One of the Focke-Wulfs crashed into the Channel. Finucane and Lewis scurried back to their home airdrome. Squadron Leader Finucane taxied his fighter up to the line and then collapsed at the controls...
...torpedoed Brazilian steamer Olinda went down with 60,000 bags of cocoa. No West African cocoa has arrived in the U.S. since last September. Other arrivals (mostly Brazilian) since Jan. 1 have totaled 202,715 bags, against 886,953 bags during the same period last year...