Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...travelers is a section which does for the world's merchant marine what Jane's Fighting Ships does for the world's navies. Consisting of accurate scale drawings of the principal merchant vessels of the seven seas, it enables any landlubber to identify any distant liner from the huge Queen Mary to the little Polish Batory...
...last week a native-born U. S. seaman had served more than a year in German concentration camps and prisons without any trial whatever. Seaman Lawrence B. Simpson, 34, was last year dragged off the U. S. liner Manhattan in Hamburg, charged with possessing 500,000 Communist pamphlets. Last July New York City Communists rioted onto the German liner Bremen in protest against Simpson's jailing, while his father mournfully asserted that Son Lawrence was no Communist. Last fortnight the Ministry of Justice transferred Seaman Simpson from camp to Berlin's famed Moabit Prison, changed the charge against...
...loving young photographer of noble ladies. "There is too much woodwork. . . . The main lounge sadly misses the discarded Duncan Grant mural. The effort at being modern is decidedly forced. . . . The Veranda Grill, however, is by far the prettiest room on any ship. . . . When constructing a boat, even a luxury liner, the English do not consider their women very carefully...
With 41 crates reportedly containing gold bars and Ethiopia's well-worn old green Imperial treasure chest among his luggage, His Majesty Haile Selassie reached London last week bravely smiling and heavily perfumed. En route from Palestine he had been transferred from a British warship to a British liner, and the British Government insisted that his status was "strictly incognito...
Meanwhile in Gibraltar last week sad little Haile Selassie disembarked from the cruiser Capetown, waited quietly in the Rock Hotel for the liner Orford to take him to England. The British Government avoided unnecessary trouble with Italy by announcing that the bearded Lion of Judah would travel to England incognito, would receive no royal honors. For Saturday breakfast Haile Selassie looked with disfavor at a plate of kippered herring, called instead for bacon & eggs, U. S. style...