Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief sufferers were 111 of the Batory's 683 passengers who were hustled off to Ellis Island because of "doubtful citizenship," medical reexamination, or some lingering doubt about their bonds. (Normally only a dozen to a score of passengers on an arriving vessel are held for inquiry.) Most, if not all, would speedily be freed after a session with a board of inquiry. This week, the Batory sailed for England again-32 minutes late and with 838 passengers this time. The Government looked a little small with its big empty...
Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (Paisan, Open City), separated from his wife and son since 1942, told his lawyers to file divorce papers. He is still on the island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian, where he is directing a movie about life among the fishermen, featuring an amateur cast and starring Ingrid Bergman...
Rockefeller asked that the money be used toward the construction and partial endowment of a classroom building to be named in memory of his father-in-law. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, who died...
...months Tongg's airline merely went through the motions, like a weary hula dancer. In 1948, it lost $148,427. Then, early this year, CAB gave Ruddy's Trans-Pacific Airlines a five-year certificate. This week, as T.P.A. advertised its first scheduled inter-island flights, to start next week, Tongg invited Hawaiians to "fly the Aloha...
Badge of Shame. Jamaicans regard it as a badge of their island's industrial shame that cement must be imported from England. Rich in limestone and gypsum, Jamaica has no cement plant. Jamaica's governor, Sir John Huggins, turned for help to World Commerce Corp.'s Sir William Stephenson, who winters in Jamaica...