Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with paint and canvas have packed up and gone. And one by one, every day, the ships come in from the fisheries: ships whose hulls have been painted by the wind and the sea for a whole summer. They come in with quiet sails, and rest in the shallow harbor...
...Vagabond likes to remember once in September when he walked through the town to the harbor, and watched the sailors leaving their ships. He thought of a time when this town sent out the proudest ships in the world, with famous captains, now forgotten. They cleared Cape Horn in midwinter, and struck for whales in the Sea of Japan and on the Malabar Coast. That was a century back. Now they cast their nets in the west Atlantic, and when Autumn comes they glide back to port...
...pointed out that Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. was a member of the international oil conference which sought to limit Russian exports. Although they muttered about an "embargo," Ottawa was of the opinion that nothing could legally be done. Newshawks discovered the Russian tanker Aase Maersk lying in Montreal harbor loaded with 9,000 tons of rich crude from Batum, already consigned to La Salle Petroleum...
...turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic over the longer, warmer, and some say smoother southern route. When the Rex ploughs up New York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden voyage in October, she will have sliced two full days from the southern run. With Italy only one sea day beyond Paris, Il Duce expects his Italia Line will now bring swarms of U. S. tourists to enrich his Fascist land. Time...
...Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman F. L. Emerson, in whose honor it was named Enna Jettick. Enna Jettick did not get as far as Harbor Grace. In a snowstorm near Darby's Harbor, N. F. the engine failed. Pilot Solberg just missed crashing into a hill, plunked the ship down into Placentia...