Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liner St. Louis left Hamburg one Sunday last month. Out into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid...
...fire first broke out in the bakery. Before firemen could chop down the door, it was licking up through the gleaming white superstructure. Other blazes had mysteriously broken out from her cutwater to her overhanging stern. While wharf crews took off her cargo, including ten U. S. warplanes not yet unloaded; fireboats poured tons of water into her blazing bowels, rigged webs of cables to keep her upright at the pier. Toward morning, with her red-hot sides sending out great clouds of steam, the Paris crankily listed to port, snapped the cables like twine, heeled over on her side...
...Chester, Pa., Donald McKay, seven-year-old great-great-grandson of Donald McKay, famed designer of U. S. clipper ships, christened the first of a group of U. S. Maritime Commission's cargo vessels. Name: Donald McKay...
...Driving through fierce storms, German ships raced to U. S. ports to land their cargoes before the 25% penalty tariff on German goods should become effective (April 22). Captain C. W. Hagemann brought in the Bremen with a 1,300-ton cargo, her record...
Died. Gladys Frazin Lowenstein Gilmore Lehne Banks, 38, onetime actress who played Tondeleyo in White Cargo, divorced wife of Cinema Producer Monty Banks; after a six-story plunge from her parents' apartment; in Manhattan...