Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Captain Antonio Lena took the Italian Line's S. S. Conte di Savoia out of Genoa harbor last week, he wanted two things. One was to beat the average speed record for a transatlantic crossing: 27.9 knots, set by North German Lloyd's Europa in 1930. The second was to beat the Conte di Savoia's own record of six days and twelve hours from Genoa to Ambrose Channel Lightship. Five days and 20 hours later Captain Lena was a happy man. His long, lean, white ship had averaged only 27.4 knots from Genoa...
...France, crossed the Atlantic to talk trade agreements with the President. For Guido Jung. Italian Minister of Finance whom Premier Mussolini had dispatched to Washington as his personal representative, President Roosevelt gave a large State dinner-but without Signor Jung who had been fog-bound in New York harbor. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht came as Adolf Hitler's special envoy. When Victor Ridder, one of the publishers of the New York Stoats-Zeitung, present as an official greeter, tried to press-muzzle him, the tall square-faced president of the Reichsbank resentfully exploded: "When you get through talking, I will...
...with tariffs and War Debts, another with railroads. The third was to cover the Administration's public works program, if & when that program is fixed. Last week the Cabinet was divided into one faction that wanted to spend upwards of $2,000,000,000 per year on roads, harbors, bridges, slum clearance, etc. etc. and another faction that wanted to spend less than $1,000,000,000 for the same purposes. ¶ On June 3, 1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson won the nation's applause by sinking the Merrimac to bottle up the Spanish fleet in the harbor...
...time he reached New York harbor with his daughter Ishbel, Prime Minister MacDonald had regained much of his philosophy. Newsmen asked if he were irked. Replied he: "Oh, gracious, no! It only brings into higher light the stress of the world." When he spied a ferryboat named President Roosevelt, he cried: "There, that's a good omen...
...Japanese war. Lower California will become another Belgium, invaded by both countries. Spies, wrote General Seyde. have decided among themselves that the opening battle of this hypothetical war will be fought about a district known as the Five Hills. The Five Hills overlook a natural undefended harbor. Held by U. S. artillery they would prevent the landing of Japanese troops. Held by Japan they would protect her base. The Five Hills are just far enough from the U. S. frontier to give Japan a fairly even break in a race from...