Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish Basque harbor of Bilbao, H. M. S. Hood, most potent warboat in the world, plowed ponderously through mountainous waves with Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake on its quarterdeck. Between the Hood and the harbor was the ancient Spanish battleship España, flagship of the Rightist fleet, and a half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100-mi. away a half-dozen British freighters were in the harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, loaded with food for beleaguered Leftist Bilbao, but by orders from London the Hood, with all the awesomeness of its 15-inch guns...
...Cinemactor Lee Tracy's yacht Adore fell his 72-year-old mother into Santa Monica harbor, whence she was rescued by her son who dived in fully clothed. Treated for shock and exposure, Mrs. Tracy was removed to her Beverly Hills apartment, where three days later the gas heater caught fire, burned up $250 worth of her clothing...
...iceberg on her maiden voyage. Year later on the same day the completed building was dedicated and the 200-ft. tower atop its 13 floors was named the Titanic Lighthouse Tower. Last week, on the twenty-fifth April 15 since the disaster, while foghorns mooed mournfully in the harbor below, three white-surpliced ministers observed the annual custom of placing a wreath at the foot of the Institute's time-ball on the tower and reading a service to some 200 hatless seamen...
Over Lake Superior last week blew a strong northwest wind. At Duluth it loosened ice floes at the harbor mouth, and the freighter John Gehm, first vessel to clear since last December, steamed out with 2,500 tons of scrap. At the east end of the lake, tugs had cut a channel from Sault Ste. Marie to open water. The wind from the west closed this, packed miles & miles of ice into Whitefish Bay. Clamped fast in the glittering rubble, more than 50 high-riding ore boats westbound from the Soo Canal stayed strung out there for two days, like...
Potent guardian of these and 39 other lines, comprising the most important Lakes shippers, is the Lake Carriers Association of Cleveland, which trains seamen, presses harbor development, hires icebreakers and employs Newton D. Baker as general counsel. In the face of the new amendments to the Seaman's Act of 1915, requiring a three-watch system on all freighters, which will add about 20% to lake crews this year the Association this spring hiked wages back nearly to 1929 levels, beginning at $87 a month for common seamen. Holding out for still higher pay, however, Detroit sailors last week...