Word: baltics
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Wilhelm, eldest son of onetime Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm of Germany, went up in a balloon with four companions near Konigsberg. Germany; was carried out over, descended into the Baltic sea, spilled out. A motor boat picked up two of the passengers. Wilhelm and the navigator swam ashore...
...course the Fatherland is still allowed to fire torpedoes from his surface war boats. In Stettin last week the commander of the 6,000 ton cruiser Karlsruhe offered 500 marks reward ($120) for the return of two torpedoes lost by him in recent Baltic Sea torpedo practice...
Purchased from the German-owned Baltic-American Line were three small but sturdy ships, the Florida, Estonia and Lithuania, which have been plowing back and forth for several years between New York and the Free City of Danzig. Now, flying the White Eagle of Poland, they will pass up poor Danzig, will call at the new and prosperous port of Gdynia, an artificial harbor constructed by Poles with mighty zeal near the tip of their famed "corridor to the sea." Nothing would please most Poles more than that Danzig, ancient and once splendid city of the Hanseatic League, should...
...quietly working at his latest novel, Joseph and His Brothers, a first venture into Biblical fiction. He would not talk of it, was lured to speak of his newest book, Mario and the Magician, which he wrote last summer in a wicker bath chair on the brim of the Baltic. "I find it quite possible," he gossiped, "to write a novelette while surrounded by noisy folks on a beach." Solemnly: "I am sincerely delighted with this great honor. I welcome it the more because I have always been profoundly stirred by Scandinavian literature...
...between the Persians and the Arabs, they progress to Carthaginians in the Mediterranean striking a crafty bargain with the Egyptians. Venetians in the Levant when bartering was done with benefit of clergy so that polite thieving was sanctified. Subsequently they show the Portuguese in India, the Dutch in the Baltic, the English in China, slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole...