Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days were spent checking the ship for the second leg of the transpacific air-way-to Midway Island, 1,323 mi. away. Capt. Edwin C. Musick fumigated the cabin from tip to tail to prevent any mosquitoes being taken along. Midway has never had any, does not want any. The plane was loaded with enough fuel to fly to Midway and back nonstop. Also loaded were 5 gal. of ice cream and several cinemas for the Midway colonists...
...Newark to avoid a reception at the Pennsylvania Station totaling five reporters. Newshawks managed without much difficulty to catch and interview her as she taxied from Newark to a Manhattan pier where, with nother melodramatic dash, she sped up he crew's gangplank to the captain's cabin of the Kungsholm. Again shy Miss Garbo merged, sweeping her long lashes at her fellow passengers. Finally an 11-year-old wandered up to request an autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo vanished for good. In Buffalo, Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty was threatened with arrest by the local...
Died. Warren Wesley Finney, 62, Emporia, Kans. banker, convicted embezzler, father of Bond Forger Ronald Finney (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933, et seq.); by his own hand (pistol); in Emporia. When peace officers came to his summer cabin last week to take him to the penitentiary, Mrs. Finney's plea for "one more hour" was granted. The officers returned to find Warren Finney sprawled on the floor, a bullet hole through both temples, a mirror propped before...
...book, and well worthy of inclusion in a U. S. anthology, is the title story, Kneel to the Rising Sun: A spineless sharecropper, whose landlord persistently half-starves him and browbeats him, as he does all his tenants, one night finds his old father missing from the cabin. To help him search he rouses a Negro neighbor; together they find the old man's body, half-devoured by their landlord's hogs. When they wake the landlord there is a quarrel between him and the Negro, which is the excuse the landlord has been waiting for. While...
Biggest bidder was a Guernsey hotelman named Walter Martin. Bidder Martin bought 750 lots, including the contents of the captain's cabin, which cost him $930. But his No. 1 prize was a piece of the port bow bearing the ten metal letters MAURETANIA. For that he gladly paid $750. The letters from the starboard bow sold individually for $20 each. Total realized...