Word: athenia
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...passage on a Dutch boat the day before war broke out, was the only American holding a fellowship to reach England. His ship, loaded with contraband, heard an S. O. S. every day of the trip and was stopped by the British Navy for inspection the day of the Athenia disaster. Steering a zig-zag course across the Atlantic, the Dutch boat almost met disaster by following a Belgian ship in the English Channel. The Belgian ship, a half hour ahead on the same course, struck a mine off Plymouth and was blown to bits...
...warns the city's Jews on the eve of the pogrom of November 1938. In the closing story a mediocre Nazi writer rediscovers his honesty, gets out of Germany by the skin of his teeth as war breaks, sails with his family for the U. S. on the Athenia...
...days when Fanny was a girl's name." Now almost 60, grey at the temples, Delaney has been in & out of Manhattan on quick visits several times in the last few years. One of these trips he made aboard a ship which carried survivors of the torpedoed Athenia. When last heard from he was back in Berlin...
...State Sumner Welles, proceeded to Berlin at about the same time. Having made mints from vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, Axel Wenner-Gren is influential in money markets, but his only experience in international crises was accidental-while cruising in his huge Southern Cross he came on the sinking Athenia and rescued some of the survivors. Nevertheless, his good friend Herr Göring thought he might be useful...
...been killed by the bombs began dropping into the water, many to drown. Dutch and British freighters rescued 189 of the 295 aboard the Domala, which was later towed to port. The 106 who died made up the war's second largest noncombatant casualty list (Athenia, 112, Simon Bolivar...