Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bermuda hotelkeepers think they have a rightful monopoly of Bermudian hotel-keeping. But Cunard and other cruise ships now tie up in Hamilton Harbor for a day or more as "floating hotels" before cruising back to Manhattan. Last week Bermuda's irate landed hotelkeepers carried their grievance before Bermudas little parliament, the Assembly...
...past month that elderly British ladies continued to totter round the gardens of resort hotels, to slide along the cobblestoned streets of Funchal in steel-runnered sledges drawn by bullocks. Honeymoon couples continued to play tennis. Last week the British cruisers London and Curlew slipped into Funchal harbor. Royal marines went ashore to throw a cordon round the three largest tourist hotels. British tourists having been thus protected, the Portuguese Government was left free to suppress the Madeira revolution as best it could...
Whale fat is not used in the U. S. as a base for margarine. But Scandinavian and German margarines contain it. Hydrogenated, snowy white, in the U. S. it goes into Procter & Gamble's "Chipso" and "P & G" naphtha soap. Into New York Harbor last fortnight steamed the Sir James Clark Ross with oil from 1,444 whales for Procter & Gamble...
...judicial work (rate-making, valuation, corporate finance) would be left as an independent function. Other governmental activities which could logically be transferred to the Secretary of Transportation would include the Alaska R. R. (from Interior Department), civil aeronautics, steamboat inspection, lighthouses and navigation (from the Commerce Department), river and harbor development, the Mississippi barge line and the Panama Canal (from the War Depart-ment), the U. S. merchant fleet (from the Shipping Board...
...oyster beds of Milford Harbor, Conn., where the Indian River empties into Long Island Sound, he found the spats settling only at low tide. That is when the salt sound water is most diluted by the fresh river water. Something in the river water evidently makes the very young oysters want to nestle to a stone or shell. By tedious eliminations, Mr. Prytherch determined that this settling factor is a trace of dissolved copper. Injurious to plant and animal life when administered in large quantities, copper sulphate may now become one of the tools of oyster farming. And copper (also...