Word: excambion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rescuers found nothing. Captain W. W. Kuhne of American Export Line's Excambion docked at Boston and snorted: "The whole thing sounds fishy! . . . Very heavy seas were running. It was pitch-dark. Visibility was almost zero. In my opinion no submarine could have operated successfully...
...dragon, among the dirty fishing feluccas off Genoa and Leghorn, past the ruined English mole into Tangier, into Oran and Salonika and Jaffa and many another exotic port, push a string of fat-bellied, black-hulled, matter-of-fact ships with extravagantly alliterative names (examples: Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion). Most have proud six-foot letters on their hulls - AMERICAN EXPORT LINES. Their fore-and after-kingposts, surrounded by a cluster of loading booms like umbrella ribs, point ambitiously to the sky. For two years, American Export's President William H. Coverdale has also been pointing ambitiously skyward: he wants...
...flashy young hustler born in 1919. Most travelers know that American Export Lines operates a fair-to-middling passenger service out of New York through the Mediterranean to the Levant (Palestine, Syria, Egypt), that its best boats all have names beginning with ''Ex" (Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion), the first of which Mrs. Herbert Hoover christened. Senator Black's investigation disclosed the following about Export Steamship's past and present...
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