Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unusual document had just been presented to slight, nervous New England Captain Joseph Gainard, Master of the Algic. To their demands astonished Captain Gainard made no reply. Then as suddenly as they had quit, the crew resumed work and the 5,500-ton, 17-year-old freighter cleared Baltimore, began its 103-day journey to South America. With the Algic sailed desertion, mutiny, death...
...boat and train to Paris, where in a small secret office his enlistment papers were filled out and approved; by train to Marseille and thence, by night and with all lights darkened, in a freighter across the Mediterranean-so John Sommerfield, young English Leftist writer, got into Spain to join the Loyalist Army. Landing, he was rushed to Albacete ("when I saw the name on the station it meant nothing then"), where in an ex-nunnery the collection of foreign volunteers later to be known as the International Column were being drilled for combat. Here he had his first chance...
Last week as the 5,299-ton British freighter Silverash wallowed down the Atlantic Coast to New York harbor, gleeful Director Mann exhibited to reporters who had been sent to meet him at Halifax one of the biggest arkfuls of animal life ever to reach U. S. shores. From the time they boarded the Silverash at Singapore he and five assistants had been busy, forking hay for their ruminants, feeding fresh eggs to snakes, dangling frozen fish before crocodiles who had to be deluded into thinking they were catching them. By a triumph of nursing and nourishing they brought back...
Government-owned ships in Far Eastern trade are the 13 vessels of the American Pioneer Line, currently being operated by the Roosevelt Steamship Co. for the account of the Maritime Commission. First ship to which the statement applied was the Pioneer Line's freighter Wichita en route from Baltimore to China with a cargo which consisted partly of barbed wire and 19 Bellanca planes for the Chinese Government. Day after the statement was released, the Wichita put in at San Pedro, Calif., for supplies. Before she proceeded to Manila, her war cargo was unloaded...
...just before the Hague event, not in lifeboats but in uniform Monomoy surf boats borrowed from the U. S. Coast Guard, the first Powell Cup race attracted a field of seven crews, fastest of which proved to be that of the United Fruit Co.'s freighter San José, which stroked the course...