Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replace Professor Vavilov, delegates elected Professor F. E. Crew of the University of Edinburgh, who said: "The atmosphere of the Congress has been turned to one of complete sadness. Nothing, however, can put out the light of science...
...with guns on board . . . lion broken loose. ..." The sender was Royal Netherlands liner Amazone, steaming 90 miles off the coast with nine passengers, half a ton of gunpowder and some 14 wild animals which she was newcastling from New York zoos to a zoo in animal-ridden Venezuela. Her crew packed no firearms...
Meantime, terror harried the gunpowder-loaded, animal-ridden Amazone. For eight hours the lion, which had breached its cage in the night, had been padding fancy-free about the decks, while passengers cowered behind barricaded cabin doors. By massing furniture the 30-man crew finally managed to confine him to the forward deck...
...minutes later passengers & crew solemnly buried the beast at sea, steamed south for Venezuela with the rest of the yowling cargo intact. To Lieut. Burke grateful Captain Nyhoff radioed: "Many thanks for your help...
...coast. Rain speared down in steel-grey phalanxes. Big, angry combers blew their tops. Battling pluckily through the maelstrom panted the little (248-ton, 36-meter) coastal steamer Itacare. She was out of Sao Salvador on her regular haul to Ilhéos, Bahia. She carried 47 passengers, a crew of 19, was heavily cargoed. Skilfully had young, but seasoned Captain Carlos Oliveira skippered her to within hailing distance of Ilhéos. Another 300 yards would find her in safe harbor...