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...morning watch was called, a large brown ship loomed out of the mists across her bow. The Chicago slackened speed, veered sharply to port. The brown ship scurried across her path, disappeared into the fog. Before the Chicago could swing her bow around again, a second ship, the British freighter Silver Palm, came plowing down on her out of the fog on the port side. The Chicago reversed engines, blared a long shrill collision call. The Silver Palm tried to stop. With a metallic crash her prow rammed 18 feet deep into the side of the Chicago just forward...
Word came that afternoon from Haverstraw, N. Y., 30 mi. up the Hudson, that a freighter had run aground in the mud and that the captain and six of the crew had fled. Customs officials hurried to Haverstraw, found the rest of the "Texas Ranger's" crew in jail for vagrancy. The officials boarded the boat. In the hold they found 25,000 cases of Canadian whiskey worth more than $1,000,000. The vessel had been cleverly disguised to resemble the Texas Ranger even down to the funnel paint and the insignia...
Stevedores sweated and loading cranes whirred in Los Angeles harbor last week as the warm dry hold of the Dorothy Luckenbach was lined with case after case of oranges all apparently blighted by a sickly pallor. When 7,500 cases were stowed aboard the freighter nosed out of the harbor on a fortnight's voyage to Manhattan...
...incongruous crowd of guests at a country-house weekend, reviewed "good" and "bad" plays for a London newspaper, acted as private secretary for a Conservative M. P. called to Geneva to serve on some League of Nations committees, electioneered, went for a Christmas holiday on a freighter, and finally discovered the timeless heart of England in the slow-changing countryside. Occasionally, as when he is portraying the asinine and brutal vulgarity of the modern young bloods and contrasting it with the traditional wisdom and courtesy of the old generation, Author Macdonell's good nature breaks down into invective...
...First was a Confederate wooden gunboat which plied the Savannah River in 1864. Second was a steel freighter used as a cargo carrier in the World War. The city is in the Congressional district represented by Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee...