Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simultaneous with the release of Secretary Kellogg's opium note, a Federal customs squad in Jersey City went sniffing through the Dollar liner President Harrison, just back from a world cruise with stops in China. The ship's crew included 131 Chinamen, who smiled stupidly when Inspector John Stirling ordered his men to cast the President Harrison's 90-fathom anchor chains out of their locker in the bows. Beneath the chains was a false partition. Behind the partition were 15,990 ounces of high-grade opium - the "Rooster" and "Kein Chung" brands- worth some...
Waiting. While the about-to-be passengers waited, keyed up and impatient, Dr. Eckener poured over maps of high and low pressure areas and the crew made a few salutary adjustments in their sleeping quarters...
...Pinta did not win the trans-Atlantic race. It took her 25 days to sweep across the treacherous calms of the ocean; the Nina and the Atlantic had both reached Santander earlier. The Pinta was manned by a crew of eight amateurs and a paid hand. One of the former, Alfred F. Loomis, described the excitements of their cruise in the current issue of the Sportsman...
...some two blocks long (763 feet) and her name is Count Zeppelin, nyth rigid airship of famed Zeppelin progeny. Last week, out of her hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, she emerged for her maiden flight, a short one. Her pilot was her designer-Dr. Hugo Eckener. She carried a crew of 30 and Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. Navy, lord of the Los Angeles...
...Freshman Crew meeting held last night in Smith Halls Common Room 210 candidates reported. The first year men were addressed by Captain Forresser Clark '29, Coach Bert Haines, and F. L. Sulivan...