Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the German crew had been released. That would suggest that the ship should sail under her German crew within 24 hours. Ambassador Steinhardt pressed for more information, tried to telephone Murmansk, sat at his desk till 5 a.m., daily prodded the Foreign Commissariat, tried to get permission to charter a plane to send an Embassy secretary to Murmansk, once got Murmansk on the telephone, only to be cut off-all for information about the welfare of the crew. But this information Russia apparently could not or would not provide...
Riding the wartime shipping boom, the firm bought ten more ships, sometimes had as many as 50 more under charter and Government allotment. At war's end it sold the Moormack for $400,000, later snapped up the Government's offer to take its huge merchant marine off its hands at dirt cheap prices of $10 to $15 a deadweight ton. The advent of World War II found Moore-McCormack big and respectable (capital: $5,000,000), in hock to the Government and worried over what to do with the surplus ships that the provisions of the Neutrality...
...Allport Charter Member...
Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology and Tutor in the Division of Philosophy and Psychology, has become one of the charter members of the organization which now numbers around...
Ughing something about an ancient charter entitling Indians to free lodging in Stoughton Hall, an early arrival from Hanover last night attempted to force his way into the Yardling room of David B. Shaw in Stoughton...