Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local labor exchanges that Tynemouths Ltd., shipping contractors, wanted unemployed seamen for a special job. Last week, under the command of John W. Sinks, Cunard White Star captain, retired in 1934 after 35 years of service, the 65 seamen picked in South Shields emerged from third class of the liner Berengaria in Manhattan. Their "special job''-with the help of 40 Canadians and 40 U. S. engineers and fire-men-was to take the famed Leviathan on her 301st and last sea voyage...
...zone in Taiwan Strait, the Dollar Line's 21,936-ton President Hoover grounded last week a few hundred yards off Japan's Hoishoto Island 500 miles north of Manila. There, with 1,000 passengers and crew safely ashore and on other ships, the $8,000,000 liner was slowly being battered to pieces...
...news of the Lindbergh decision to live abroad, has been the newspaper world's best authority on all Lindbergh activities. Transferred to his paper's Washington branch, Reporter Lyman had heard nothing about the impending visit and the rumor presently died. Last week, when the U. S. Liner President Harding docked in New York, city editors were under the impression that the only conceivably newsworthy figures on board were the members of a Chechoslovakian Trade-Treaty Commission. Consequently, there were on hand only the run-of-the-mill ship-news reporters, a Fox Movietone Newsreel cameraman...
...calls attention to is the safety and reliability of over-ocean travel-30 transatlantic seaplane test flights made in 1937, and 7,000,000 passenger miles flown over the Pacific. Then the report plunges into the economic aspects of air and sea travel, comparing the costs of a liner such as the Normandie, a dirigible 28% bigger than the late Hindenburg and a 40-passenger, 120,000-lb. flying boat.* For U. S. shipyards to build a Normandie would cost $50,000,000. A fleet of dirigibles with the same annual passenger capacity would cost about the same. For just...
Died. Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, 61, president of Standard Oil Co. of California; of a heart attack; on board the Grace Liner Santa Paula, in the Panama Canal...