Word: exochorda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have slain his 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...
...busses to the Italians in Africa. Thumbing his nose at the State Department, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey announced that his firm had been doing business with Italy for more than 40 years and was not ready to quit now. The American Export Liner Exochorda, one of the biggest U. S. freighters in the Mediterranean service, steamed out of Jersey City with the greatest cargo in her career, consisting chiefly of such near-war materials as lubricating oil, copper, motors, apparently consigned to Italy...
...White Star liners end in ic and Cunarders in ia, so ships of the American Export Lines begin in Ex (Executive, Exochorda, Excalibur). Last week one of them sloshed her way up to Smyrna. The Exilona was going to bring an ex-tycoon home from exile: the U. S. Government had won its long battle to bring Samuel Insull back for trial...
...Export Steamship, a 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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