Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vexed, Chairman Thomas V. O'Connor, of the Shipping Board, denounced this as Rotterdamaging "foreign' propaganda" put forth (he said) for ulterior purposes in a foreign rate war. Even when the sales are effected-probably months hence-the Shipping Board will not at once dissolve. The Shipping Board's ultimate purpose is to build up U. S. shipping. Bids of every form must carry certain guarantees of performance by the purchasers. Any one buying the Palmetto Line, for example, must guarantee 24 round voyages per annum between South Atlantic ports and Continental Europe for five years...
...London, one of the huge trimotored Fokker planes which Financier Loewenstein habitually described as his "flying offices." In the crew's compartment were Pilot Ronald Drew and Mechanic Robert F. Little. In the "office" flew British Stenographer Miss Edith Clarke and French Stenographer Mlle. Paule Bidalon. Also on board were Valet Frederick Baxter Backster and Secretary J. O. Hodgson. Three mighty engines thrashed the air around the plane into a 300 mile an hour gale, thrusting the Fokker across the English Channel at 100 miles per hour...
When they landed at Dunkerque, France, before proceeding to St. Ingbert, the six Loewenstein servants all said that M. Le Capitaine had been on board at the beginning of the flight and was discovered not to be on board when the plane was flying 4,000 feet above mid-Channel...
Atlantic, Azara, Elena, Guienerve, Zodiac. Pleasant names. They belong to big racing schooners. John Pierpont Morgan on board his own black yacht the Corsair watched them as they lolled pleasantly among darting little put-puts, just off Sandy Hook. For two-and-a-half hours they lolled and jockeyed now and then; finally along came a breath of breeze and the five big schooners moved toward Santander, Spain, 3,055 miles across the sea. They were racing for the King Alfonso...
Conservation Board Accused of Taking Fawn from Child to Make Nomination Fete Gift...