Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little white spot dances slowly around the cabin of The Spirit of St. Louis. Col. Lindbergh is meticulously examining the ship by electric flashlight; guaranteeing to himself her fitness. In her cabin he stows unaccustomed implements, fish hooks, a cruel, keen machete.* Fish hooks for food; the knife to cut a path out of any tangled jungle into which ill luck may spill...
George Washington. So great has transatlantic tourist travel become and so insistent the demand for ships with only one type of cabin accommodations that the United States Lines ordered their second largest vessel, the George Washington, changed from first-class to cabin service. Last week the interior alterations were almost completed. On Jan. 4 she will sail for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen. The change groups the George Washington with the United States Lines' other cabin ships, the Republic, President Roosevelt, President Harding and America, in immediate competition with the White Star Line's Baltic and the North German...
...operated as hotels, with rooms at various prices, with all decks open to all passengers, with cafeteria as well as dining-room service. This plan, he argued, would reduce operating costs for the ship owners, would permit lower fares, would stimulate tourist travel (TIME, May 18, 1925). the cabin boats have followed Merchant Filene's general plan to their owner's profit. By reducing winter fares, as Mr. Filene also suggested, the lines have gained year-round traffic. Last week the Cosulich Line, operating between New York and Adriatic ports, announced that it would build eight new ships...
...York Daily Mirror, declared by some to be William Randolph Hearst's pet property of all his newspapers, will be edited from now on by Victor F. Watson. Mr. Watson sits at the desk left vacant when Philip A. Payne strode confidently from the Mirror shop to the tiny cabin of Old Glory to ride to Rome and write the story for the Mirror. The airplane dived into the Atlantic; and the greatest of tabloid editors died on assignment (TIME, Sept...
Count Luckner seemed to have a penchant for disorderly conduct on the high seas from the time he first became cabin boy after running away from the patrician respectability of his home. Like the hero of the Aeneid, he suffered many hardships upon land and sea, at one time even becoming, as did John Masefield and an equally August Figure in American poetry, interested in keeping a saloon. It might be ungracious to continue the parallel of Mr. Masefield and the A. F. further, but it would appear that Count Luckner drank up most of his profits and even part...