Word: iles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aboard the Ile de France a few hours prior, Federal agents had seized $126,000 worth of imported narcotics disguised as German toys. *Repeatedly has Premier Inukai declared that Japan "wouldn't have Manchuria as a gift...
...Paris the Bank of France again increased its phenomenally huge gold holdings last week and the French Line was able definitely to announce that France will complete the super-Ile de France, a ship larger and faster than any now afloat and the first transatlantic liner with "American type" turbo-electric drive. With a new State subsidy behind this French prosperity project, some 4,000 Frenchmen were riveting like so many steelpeckers all over the great hull last week, expected to launch her in October 1932, complete her for service...
Baldwins, Pippins, Winesaps, Deliciouses?20,000 barrels of them from U. S. orchards were piled high in the hold of S. S. Ile de France last week when she nosed past Havre breakwater. These apples, valued at $100,000, stayed on the Ile de France. France had just slapped an embargo on all "fresh fruits, live plants or parts of live plants from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan." The embargo was officially based on the discovery of San José scale, an infectious fruit scab, on recent shipments of apples and pears from...
...will challenge Cunard's. (Both liners will be "faster than the fastest and larger than the largest" now extant.) Up to last week the French Line had put roughly three times more money than Cunard into actual construction, namely 300,000,000 francs null Suggested name for the Ile de France's super-super-sister: Normandy, since that province fronts the Atlantic and appeals most romantically, with or without roses, to U. S. citizens...
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch arrived in New York Nov. 12 on S. S. Ile de France. With him were his wife, Princess Iljinski (Audrey Emery of New York) and their small son Paul...