Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forty-Niner William ("California") Taylor who chose the longest way to the gold fields- around the Horn. In 1849 that route was safely traversed by 108 vessels. Most of the passengers sought gold. Few of them became either rich or famous, many returned East. William Taylor took a cargo of cut timber with him to build a church. An overpowering man with a stentorian voice, he wore a big, warm beard instead of a shirt. He had been Methodist Bishop of Africa. When he arrived in San Francisco he put his Bible on an overturned whiskey barrel in the middle...
...says that after she has made one more picture she will retire. "Why should I go on until I am playing mother roles? ... I have plenty of money. . . . I want to improve my mind. . . . Most of the time you will find me bobbing around Europe. . . ." White Cargo (British). Several U. S. picture companies wanted to produce this, but Will Hays, supervisor of cinema morals, made clear that he would not sanction it. With W. Somerset Maugham's Rain it was salient on his black list. At last United Artists made Rain with Gloria Swanson, calling it Sadie Thompson; Hays...
Duration with weight; distance with weight: Dieudonne Costes and Paul Codos, in one flight, over Marseilles, flew 2,048 mi., in 18 hr. 1 min. with one gross ton of cargo in a Brequet with Hispano-Suiza motor...
River bandits south of Canton grew bolder last week, seized a $50,000 oil cargo from Standard...
...Well, gentlemen, perhaps a little," said Mynheer Adrian Gips, a director of the Holland America Line. Stoutly he added that nearly all the $1,000,000 had been spent on solid Dutch comfort-more bathrooms, broader cabins, a new swimming pool in what was once cavernous cargo space. There are no boats on any ocean so frequently painted, furiously scrubbed, resolutely polished as the Dutch. On the Rotterdam a relay of tiny Dutch pages, with faces as round and red as Edam cheeses, stand all day and half the night beside the First Class main stairway, to dash forward...