Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authorized by Union heads, as is the Pacific Coast strike, the Atlantic fight has been nowhere near as clear-cut. On the Pacific last week after Si days there were still 235 ships tied up and only foreign bottoms cleared port. On the Atlantic, however, many a U. S. liner and freighter steamed away and two powerful unions (Masters, Mates and Pilots of America; National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association), which had joined Seaman Curran's insurgents, reefed their sails, returned to work...
...sail for Southampton, where the Mayflower awaited them. . . . Lucky are the people who can look back to such a history of toleration and strength as can the Dutch!" The 300-year-old Dutch bell of Manhattan's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas pealed for Juliana. Aboard the Dutch liner Statendam in Manhattan harbor, Knickerbocker notables toasted her name and "the truly Dutch name of President Roosevelt" at an eleven-course Dutch dinner. At the Netherlands Club in Gramercy Park, the Royal Dutch wedding caused even the most staid members to down thimbleful after thimbleful of scorching Holland...
...Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles out to the Matson liner Monterey, whose captain had refused to enter the harbor for fear of losing his crew. They left Hawaii in a state of what its Governor Joseph B. Poindexter called "very grave emergency." No one was starving, but Hawaii imports 55% of its food and after three weeks supplies were running...
...commercial photographers and a script girl aboard, hired to get some shots of the silvery train to be used by C. B. & Q. for publicity. With its engine cut too low for the glide, the little monoplane was suddenly caught in the vortex of air caused by the stream-liner's passage. Out of control, it banked sharply to the right, crashed in a gush of flame. When rescuers arrived, "the bodies were already burned beyond recognition...
Having sat in a Nazi jail for 15 months, slight, blond, U. S. Seaman Lawrence B. Simpson (TIME, July 27) confessed in Berlin before the German People's Court this week that he had smuggled Communist propaganda into Germany aboard the U. S. Liner Manhattan, was sentenced to remain for an additional 22 months in jail. The Nazi Court had told Seaman Simpson menacingly: "In German courts we are accustomed to go more lightly on men who make full confessions...