Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year the coral-pink prettiness of the Bermuda Islands attracted 79,856 visitors. Of these, well over 90% were Americans, but only 1,088 tourists sailed there on U. S. ships. Early this year, in an attempt to divert U. S. tourist dollars into U. S. pockets, Eastern Steamship Lines decided to run the steamer Acadia (cruise capacity 400) on a weekly schedule to Bermuda, competing chiefly with the British-owned Furness Bermuda Line...
...there are more ways than one of skinning a Yankee. In July, Furness Line boats adopted the ship-hotel plan themselves, right in Hamilton harbor. This time hotels ashore really felt the pinch. At a session of the Legislature, a new bill was offered. It mentioned no U. S. shipping line, carefully exempted "transit passenger ships" (cruise ships), and, as a loophole in case of protests* placed a power of exemption in the hands of the Bermuda Trade Development Board. Last week in Bermuda's Legislature, over protests from St. George merchants, this bill became a law, subject...
Just before CAA took over, the Post Office Department had to award contracts for several new airmail lines. Average Government subsidy for carrying the mail, during the four years since airmail contracts have been subject to competitive bidding, has been about 17? a mile. But for the new routes, bids reached new lows. Reason: successful bidders were to get their franchises confirmed as long as "public convenience and necessity" demanded them, when CAA took over, and would consequently have places in line if or when CAA handed out a fatter subsidy...
...Russian-born Cleveland oilman and war veteran put in a long distance call for Japanese Ambassador Saito in Washington, got him on the line, pleaded with him to keep the peace, was assured there would be no Japanese-Russian war. Since then Cleveland's Abraham ("Abe") Pickus has been busy telephoning world diplomats, dictators and statesmen in a vigorous one-man campaign to bring about international amity. Although Chamberlain, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and many another bigwig refused to talk, Veteran Pickus once was put through to Spain's Franco, another time to Hitler, whom he promptly...
Best-known emblem of U. S. shipping around the world is a white dollar sign mounted on red-banded stacks. Last week, leaking badly at the seams, its brightwork tarnished after decades of shining renown, the Dollar Line signed away by its crew of heirs, assignees and moneylenders, was to be taken over by the U. S. Maritime Commission...