Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after another M. P.'s from Britain's stricken manufacturing districts damned Japan for dumping, for forging British trademarks, for sweeping many a British cargo boat off Far Eastern seas by debased yen competition. To champion Japan uprose only one M. P., that doughty Gladstonian Liberal. Sir Herbert Samuel, who lately led 33 Orthodox ("Free Trade") Liberals across the House from the Government benches. In his first opposition speech, Sir Herbert confined himself to cotton. Japan's commercial advantage in that field, he said, results from a well organized cotton textile industry "with which slipshod British methods...
Undesirable Lady (written & produced by Leon Gordon). Playwright Gordon ten years ago wrote something called White Cargo. The action was laid on a South Sea island and a character named Ton-deleyo raised merry Ned among the resident white men with her "mammy-pala-ver." Mr. Gordon's present drama takes place for the most part in the frozen North, but there is still plenty of "mammy-palaver." It concerns a murderess who flees with her elderly and devoted lawyer to the north woods when conviction seems certain. The old man goes snow blind. A strapping woodsman entertains...
Identified in Lloyd's register as the Holmewood of Barbados, owned by Continental Indies Shipping Co., Ltd., the abandoned ship was towed down the river into New York harbor and her cargo placed under guard. As she lay at anchor near the Statue of Liberty she created amazement among the officers and crew of the real Texas Ranger as they steamed in from Galveston...
...Herbermann procured for his line a ten-year ocean mail contract at $1,044,000 per year. When his new ships began to operate Walter Brown, then Postmaster General, increased this subsidy to $2,185,000 per year. But Export Steamship was not overburdened with postal cargo. From August 1928 to June 1929 its ships carried precisely three pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that...
Died. Captain Paul Koenig, 66, Wartime commander of the famed German merchant submarine Deutschland; after long illness; in Gnadau, Germany. In July 1916 he startled the world by running the Deutschland through the Allied blockade, bobbing up off the Virginia Capes with a valuable cargo of dyestuffs. While he unloaded and reloaded at Baltimore, eight Allied warships waited in fanwise formation outside the three-mile limit. The Deutschland slipped through them, carried Captain Koenig home to a triumph that was redoubled when he made another round trip to the U. S. the following autumn...