Word: clippers
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...Shipping Administrator Land before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was startling enough to raise up the rosy hope in many a U.S. layman that, through her immense production for war, the U.S. may easily re-establish a peacetime merchant marine which, as in the days of the clipper ships, will be second to none...
...trip was over. The President's Clipper returned to Miami; a special train took him back to the White House, the day after his birthday...
...domestic front a new crisis brewed in the battle against inflation. The fight over the Army's size still awaited his decision. All these problems the President tackled with the verve of a man to whom travel is a tonic and a Clipper berth as restful as a feather...
Down through the clammy mists of Long Island Sound an oil-stained Pan American Clipper rumbled. It squatted on the water, taxied between the lights to its ramp at LaGuardia Field. By the time the engines had spat to rest, ruddy, squint-eyed Captain R. O. D. Sullivan was ready to sign the log of a historic transatlantic crossing...
...tall, brawny Italian with a conspirator's felt hat last week kissed his wife good-by in suburban Mamaroneck, swung behind the wheel of a Clipper model Packard and drove to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. There he encased himself in the beard and trappings of an ancient czar. Exactly one hour after his arrival, Ezio Pinza, with a regal bearing that scattered stagehands right & left, stubbed out the butt of a lighted cigaret and strode through the wings as Boris Godunoff...