Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serums were soon on their way to Nome when the Coast Guard ordered three vessels of the Bering Sea patrol to proceed there at once and share supplies with stricken inhabitants, who by this time were huddled in rude barracks and eating in a community kitchen. A food-laden boat was hurrying up from Seattle. Alaska Steamship Co., aware that not more than two round trips could be made to Nome before the Arctic winter clamped down, cut rates on food and building material in half. Luckiest break for Nome, however, was a Lomen boat which had just come down...
...what few tourists have seen?the grinding, gleaming polar ice pack, which squeezes ships to death in winter, retreats north of the Arctic Circle in summer. For its pioneer cruise the company refitted its 3,868-ton icebreaker Victoria, booked passengers at $250 to $390. Last week, laden to the gunwales with 500 "arm-chair adventurers" and well started on its 7,000-mile, 26-day itinerary, the Victoria sailed from Nome for the dash to the ice pack's fringe. Later the ship will call at a Siberian port by special permission of the Soviet Government...
Proceedings began when Boss Long cast his bill-laden straw hat on a committee table and started explaining his 27-point "purifying" program. Among the measures to come out of the Long hat were: ¶ A bill to provide a Legislative investigation of the municipal government of New Orleans, an almost exact copy of the law which empowered Samuel Seabury to investigate the New York City government and drive Mayor James J. Walker out of office...
...long the Lampoon has been heavily laden with debts run up on extravagant ventures which failed to bring the returns expected. Serious difficulties were met with in the case of many issues and the comic found itself ensnared...
...appeared in pink tights, attempted a fan-dance. But the evening's high point was the kitchen symphony (Messrs. Metzenger. Veseley, Sayers and Kopp) for which the four strange shoppers-the orchestra's percussion players-dressed up like chefs, stood between a big stove and a crockery-laden table and accurately tapped out note for note the Allegretto from Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. Oldtimers remembered that Theodore Thomas, father of Chicago's music, put on the same act 29 years ago. That the Orchestra will live to give it again was assured by the donations...