Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, as Canada fussed over last-minute details for Their Majesties' 26-day train tour of the Dominion (and five-day visit to the U. S.), the liner Empress of Australia, bearing their precious persons from England, groped through blinding fog, shied away from towering icebergs and treacherous, low-floating "growlers," made hooting, painfully slow progress westward. It was a bad crossing from the start. Three days out George had to muffle up and Elizabeth stayed mostly indoors as a 60-mile gale whipped the Empress, tossing up mighty waves that washed over her gunwales. The wallowing sent many...
...Three hundred and fifty miles off Cape Race, 1,350 miles from Quebec, the Empress' experienced crew got a whiff of the dank, penetrating "smell of icebergs." Soon the bergs showed up, scant hundreds of yards off the Empress' bows. A cold fog settled down over the liner. The escort cruisers anxiously nosed ahead, and on the Empress the siren sounded mournful blasts at intervals as it slowed to a halt. Thenceforth Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley North allowed the Royal flotilla to proceed only with extreme caution. In four-and-a-half days it advanced only 172 miles...
...Sunday the Empress nudged warily through ice and fog. In Quebec, where no Sunday newspapers are published, wild rumors spread, the wildest being that the Royal flotilla was dodging not ice but German submarines. By Sunday night, however, the liner had found clear weather, and steamed full speed for port. Scheduled for Monday, the elaborate welcoming ceremonies at Quebec had to be set back two days. Unwilling to slight the French population in Quebec and Montreal, Dominion officials cut the two days off Ottawa's scheduled four-day celebration. If all then went well, this would bring Their Majesties...
...Queen Mother, wiped tears from her eyes. The King's daughters, Princess Elizabeth, 13-year-old heir-presumptive to the throne, and Princess Margaret Rose, 8, waved handkerchiefs. An obsequious bevy of Ministers, Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Sir Samuel Hoare, lined up to say goodby. The great white liner provided for the King's conveyance-Canadian Pacific's 25-year-old Empress of Australia, formerly the German Tirpitz-the spoils of a victorious war, flew the white ensign of the Royal Navy, the yellow-&-red Admiralty flag, the red, blue & gold royal standard bearing the arms...
...liner President Garfield was all set to sail from Genoa one day last week-gangplanks had been drawn up, lines were being cast off-when an American sailor gave voice to patriotic fervor. "Long live Roosevelt!" he shouted at the Italian longshoremen on the pier. No good Duce-lover could take that with his mouth closed. "Long live Mussolini!" replied the longshoremen. In a trice groups on ship and shore were bellowing at each other. "Long live Roosevelt. Down with Mussolini!" roared the sailors. "Long live Mussolini. Down with America!" chorused nearly a thousand Italians. Patriotic martyrs were two American...