Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here," the survivors of the Macon were landed at San Francisco. A Naval court of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident was convened aboard the U.S.S. Tennessee in the harbor. Three days after the crash "Doc" Wiley got something he had long been waiting for: an order from Washington promoting him from the rank of Lieutenant Commander to that of Commander...
Disgruntled jobless miners rubbed their eyes, grinned at the prospect of jobs at good wages. In Seaham they read announcements that Londonderry Collieries Ltd. has decided to spend $1,250,000 at Seaham Harbor putting up a huge plant for extraction of oil from Seaham coal. "This will mean jobs for 1,500 additional men in the mines," said a Londonderry executive. By rushing construction of the great plant at a speed unprecedented in Britain, Londonderry expects to open it in March, the General Election being expected shortly afterward...
...Congress. These were not the bigwigs of industrial and academic laboratories. They were the humble rank & file of U. S. idea men, indefatigable purveyors of small ingenuities, perpetual optimists who swell the total of U. S. patents to some 50,000 a year. For example, Albert Giese of Benton Harbor, Mich., had heard a shocking story that 15,000 to 20,000 milkers are blinded every year by the restless tails of cows. His patented cow-tail restrainer was on display last week among 484 other inventions...
...sighted the freighter Jane Christenson dead ahead, shrilled a warning. Before the Lexington could get out from under the freighter knifed her amidships, nearly broke her in half. While the ship's orchestra played "Somebody Stole My Gal," passengers waded across decks knee-deep in water. Tooting furiously, harbor tugs bustled to the Lexington's side, took off passengers & crew almost before they knew it. The Lexington sank in ten minutes, took four seamen with...
When the S.S Rex steamed into New York harbor one evening last week reporters clambered aboard to interview a celebrated passenger. They found a nervous little man who wore spats, a bright checkered scarf and a fur-lined overcoat which, for no apparent reason, he kept putting on & taking off. Once he had located the spectacles perched on the top of his head, he gladly gave his autograph. He used Russian letters but he set them down vertically, like Chinese. Deciphered, they read: '"Igor Stravinsky...