Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When customs agents boarded Bootlegger Carl Rettich's yacht Prudence in Boston harbor three years ago. they searched in vain for contraband until one chanced to unscrew an electric light bulb. At once panels slid back, revealing thousands of dollars worth of liquor. In Rettich's Warwick house the raiders scraped some whitewash off a brick pillar in the cellar, found and turned a key. A great slab of concrete rose quietly out of the floor, opening the way to a subcellar. Steps led from the subcellar to a huge vault in which were found three machine guns...
...Normandie, world's largest ship, away from St. Nazaire where she was built, hardy Bretons have dredged out of the harbor a special channel six miles long, made more exciting by five unavoidably sharp curves. Last week the completed Normandie, drawing 40 ft. of water and with the French Line Chairman Marcel Olivier aboard, was shoved off by ten frantically churning tugs while Bretons, gathered from miles around, cheered and whooped in the rain. Hardly had the Normandie cleared the first buoy when driving mists shut her out of sight from shore. Most ticklish moment came when...
...within the Fascist kingdom of Italy, is a sturdy little republic. Its chief industry is postage stamps for collectors. Last week, for the first time in history, San Marino sent to Monaco an envoy, Minister Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary Giuliano Gozi. Gravely Prince Louis received him in the palace across the harbor from the Casino, accepted his well-stamped credentials...
...once beneath the moonlight-flooded clouds. At dawn the Clipper broke through the grey mists overhanging Oahu Island, sped onward in the bright sunlight of a Hawaiian morning, to make a 150-mi. survey of landing areas. Then, within one minute of its schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper covered...
...Baltimore, Roy Hall, 21, who was washed overboard last November when a North Atlantic gale hit the S. S. Cold Harbor, walked into the U. S. Shipping Commissioner's office to contradict the official report of his death. He had somehow been spotted by the crew of the British freighter Maidenhead after swimming out the gale for two days...