Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singers, politicians, Bankers Otto Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
Last week, day after Manning's wife gave birth to a daughter, his body was washed up at Indiana Harbor with those of his companions. They were partly dressed, unbruised, obviously had tried to swim ashore after the 'giro settled onto the surface with a faulty engine or empty fuel tanks...
Jockeying for the start of the first of six races for a "women's national sailing championship" off Cohasset, Mass. last week, Skipper Lorna Whittelsey of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club's crew had a piece of hard luck. Two of the other six boats in the race-sailed by crews from Bellport, L. I. and Cohasset-collided with her, sailing broad off when she was closehauled. The judges disqualified Bellport. An Edgartown boat won, sailed by Clara Dinsmore. In the afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible...
...twin-motored Navy flying boats skittered across the blue waters of Norfolk Harbor one afternoon last week, took off in perfect formation and bored south. Each was manned by two officers, four enlisted men. Each was completely equipped with machine guns and bomb racks. Around the airdrome there was much well-mannered excitement, but all that officials would admit was that Squadron 5F under Lieut.-Commander Donald M. Carpenter was flying to Panama- purely routine. Few hours later the Press, already excited by the naval mobilization in Cuban waters headlined: SIX NAVY PLANES ON MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau...
...Greensboro, N. C. Robinson R. Stabler, glowing with international goodwill, proposed that New York Harbor's Goddess of Liberty be equipped with loudspeaker and polylingual set of records, thunder appropriate greetings and farewells at passing ships...