Word: bremerhaven
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...Westphalen cleared the port of Bremerhaven last week with a curious destination on her logbook: "Long. 25° W. Lat. 5° X." There, in the South Atlantic. just above the Equator and midway between Africa and South America, the Westphalen was to drop anchor and remain indefinitely as a way station for transoceanic aircraft. Onetime freight steamer of the North German Lloyd, the Westphalen has been rebuilt for seadrome purposes. Most ingenious device is the landing apron, an enormous sheet of tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern...
...explicitly barred to Czechoslovak males are all combinations of names containing "Mary," such as the common "Erich Maria" and "Ludwig Maria." Reason why so many parents name their sons "Mary" is of course that by this means they place him under the spiritual protection of the Virgin. From Bremerhaven sailed Professor Albert Einstein & wife, bound for California's Institute of Technology. Said he, leaving Berlin: "That insignificant, irritable visa incident will not spoil the pleasure of the voyage. . . . It's all forgotten. The trouble with hearings of that kind is that you don't realize until some...
Amadeo Peter Giannini, San Francisco banker, heard in Germany that his stepfather. Banker Lorenzo ("Boss") Scatena, was dying, boarded ship at Bremerhaven Aug. 13 at 11:50 a. m., raced by boat, train, airplane, reached San Francisco Aug. 22 at 8:13 a. m. Total elapsed time: nine days, five hr., 23 min. But Banker Scatena died several hours before his stepson arrived...
...Herman Rashke, clergyman of Bremerhaven, Germany, arriving in the U. S., displayed a champagne bottle full of seawater dipped up in midocean, announced he would baptize his nephew with it to symbolize the amity between Germany...
...last week the grey conning tower and then the deck of a British submarine rose, spume-flecked, at an historic moment. His Majesty's sub had chanced to bob up directly between the two fastest liners in the world, both German: the nine-month-old Bremen bound for Bremerhaven, and her new sister ship, the Europa, maiden-voyaging to New York...