Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia Capes were the hurricane's next objective. Twenty-five miles off shore it swooped down upon the Old Dominion liner Madison, Norfolk-bound out of New York. A 70-ft. wave carried away the Madison's forward deck house, snapped her booms, stove in her ventilators, snatched off three lifeboats and flooded the cabins. The second mate and quartermaster were washed overside, two of the crew badly injured. Captain William Heath hove to, sent out an SOS. The 37 passengers were corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast...
...Sausalito ferry, Meek had lost his job, become insane. He flourished a pistol, held Wood prisoner all night in his home. Next morning he took Wood to San Francisco, registered with him at an apartment hotel as father and son. When Meek went out during the day he bound his victim with wire, taped his mouth, muffled his head in a hood. He made Wood cook their meals, forced him to withdraw $200 from his bank, beat him when he was unable to get more...
...King Feisal in London during the past June season. When King Feisal was in London fullest royal honors were paid to the "new nationhood" of Irak by Christian King George V who feted his royal Mohammedan guest at Buckingham Palace. With Assyrians being massacred last week Britain was obviously bound to try to save as many of them as possible. Unfortunately the British Minister to Irak, Sir Francis Humphrys, was on vacation in Norway last week, had to be recalled to London and then despatched post haste to Irak by agitated Scot MacDonald. Meanwhile in Bagdad, King Feisal...
...operating subsidiaries of merger-born Socony-Vacuum Corp). Socony is a Chinese institution. Socony has sold kerosene in China for more than 50 years.* Socony's agents are venerated in the community. Socony's ships thoughtfully slow down so that their wash will not upset frail sampans bound down river...
...Eagle came to final terms. A. N. P. A.'s President Howard Davis, anxious to end four weeks of wrangling, submitted a "temporary" code by which publishers could officially receive their eagles, got it approved by Administrator Johnson pending a hearing. It stipulated that publishers would not be bound by any requirements which might impair the Freedom of the Press, thus quieting a controversy raised by newspapermen who feared the licensing powers of NRA. It included (but left for future discussion) settlement of a second controversial point: that publishers and employes had the right to bargain together without interference...