Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...space that Muralist Marsh has long itched to fill is the 30-year-old dome of Manhattan's Custom House, as fine a public expanse of plaster as any frescoer could itch for. He prepared a series of eight sketches, showing scenes of a liner (Queen Mary) entering New York Harbor, taking the pilot aboard, warping into her pier, discharging freight...
Unknown to most ocean travelers, every major liner carries a couple of coffins and its ship's doctor is a qualified embalmer. While ship captains by immemorial law of the sea have the right to order burial of bodies at sea, such is a non-sailor's horror of this type of burial that the bodies of persons dying aboard ship today are usually embalmed and turned over to authorities at the decedent's home port...
...Italian Liner Rex scratching hives. Explained Purser Luigi Pesenti: "Each year a new supply of Russian grey caviar is taken on and there is too much indulgence. Every year at this time, in June and,July, we always have the cabin passengers suffering from hives...
...chairman. Said Father Sinclair last week: "My son's election to the Board does not mean that he is going to have a mahogany desk and a big salary. It is simply a part of his education. . . . When he has completed his course as a roustabout, pipe liner and in the refineries, it will be time enough to find out what his job is going to be. In the meanwhile, he will draw our common labor rate of pay and make his own way in the company on the same footing as any other employe. He will have plenty...
...Viking last February for what he called a "stag cruise-the first vacation since I was married 30 years ago." Stricken with peritonitis in mid-Pacific last week, Mr. Baker was operated upon by his yacht's physician, assisted by a doctor and nurse haled from a passing liner. Radio brought further medical aid from Hawaii, sped by the Navy, the Coast Guard, the U. S. Public Health Service. Mrs. Baker dashed 5.500 mi. by air from Manhattan to arrive in Honolulu the day before her husband died...