Word: clippers
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...marine built under the stress of war would bring back the heyday of American ocean commerce have been severely shaken by the recurrent deficits of the Shipping Board budgets. The experience of the past few years seems to prophesy all too plainly that with the passing of the famous clipper ships went forever American mercantile supremacy. Various explanations have been offered which characteristically center in an abuse of government management, but the almost obvious reason is the same that prevented the development of a merchant marine before the war--the fact that Americans cannot compete profitably with English shippers...
...furrows through all the seven seas; the spirit and solidity that existed, as Mr. Pulsifer rather neatly and metaphorically puts it, "before the coming of King Gasoline". To illustrate his point, the author has taken as his example the old seaport of Middlehaven, one time builder and guardian of clipper ships and salt-water heroes; and he has arrayed on one side Caleb Gurney, a character who, but for the pathos of his position and the understanding of the author, would be simply a type "wind-and-rigging" sailor; and on the other the men of country clubs and golf...
Variety, The Billboard, The Clipper, Zit's Weekly-the average citizen not in " the profession" who stumbles upon one or more of these stumbles at once into a new and diverting world. A world where the verb " to wow" means unqualified success, where " sisters " are seldom if ever related, where a " tab " is not what old Mr. Webster said it was, but a tabloid musical show...
...anxious to know " The Inside Stuff on Legit? " Variety will tell you. Do you happen to want an ant-eater for a pet or to know just exactly what the home folks in Terre Haute are seeing in the way of vaudeville? The Clipper can quote you a price on one and the entire bill of the other...
Time was when the lure of travel and of the sea furnished an irresistible call to the young New Englander. The great development of industry has changed all this, and with the passing of the old clipper ship has gone a large part of the romantic atmosphere that attached itself to the professional sailor.--in this country at least. The Briton however, must perforce be a mariner. The nation lives by commerce, and hence the sea is a popular calling. It has been left to an Englishman to show that in steam ships there is a fascination that equals that...