Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claimed that by enforcing certain existing laws virtually every American vessel could be kept out of French ports. Conferences of ship owners are taking place in England to decide on a concerted plan of action against the new prohibition ruling. It is suggested that foreign ships may call at Halifax instead of New York, or drop their liquors there and proceed to New York. It is also suggested that foreign vessels may station rum ships just outside the three-mile limit, leaving their liquors "on deposit " while they touch port. All these plans are more or less discounted as impracticable...
Transoceanic lines will probably have a Canadian port of call-such as Halifax-in order to load and unload their liquor supplies and thus take full advantage of the new interpretation...
...return trip was uneventful except for the high seas that were met on the sixth day out from Liverpool when only 186 knots were covered. Two days later, when 500 nautical miles from Halifax, the "Andania" ran into a gale which further retarded her progress...
President and Mrs. Lowell will arrive in Cambridge late this afternoon after their six weeks of travel abroad unless some unforeseen accident delays their steamer. The "Ambania", on which President and Mrs. Lowell are passengers, docked at Halifax at 9.30 o'clock yesterday morning, over 24 hours late as the result of a rough passage. President and Mrs. Lowell remained on board...
...remember how we all worked together in the war for our soldiers and our sailors, how we met together, and thought no task too hard? Do you remember our emergency drive for the Halifax Relief, when we had the unique distinction of raising so much money that we sent a special fund to be used for those blinded by the explosion? We are just the same people, and we are going to work just as hard now and give just as much for those men who fought for us and are back among us, broke in body or in mind...