Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chris was a good lad, according to the dim lights of his submerged world. Married seven years, father of two, and still in love with his Anne, he thought himself in luck to have a steady job as stoker on a transatlantic liner, to spend one blissful week at home out of every hard month. It never occurred to his simple mind, nearly as calloused as his hands, that Anne might not be contented as he was. His boozy father-in-law hinted, neighborhood gossip spoke plainer, Anne herself as good as told him that something was wrong. The most...
Unluckily for Chris's simple Q.E.D., Anne's true love landed just after Chris had sailed. The letter that told him what she had not been able to met him in Manhattan, made him jump ship there and stow away on the first liner he could find. His will to get back to Anne was strong enough to survive a shipwreck in mid-Atlantic, but not omnipotent enough to keep his wife from running away with a more compelling...
While their editors groveled, reporters scurried around in search of news, added a few facts and a mass of apocrypha to the Times' scripture. By Monday afternoon it was revealed that the Lindberghs had sailed on the U. S. Lines' small American Importer, a cargo liner of 7,590 tons. Not even the ship's officers had known who their passengers were to be until Colonel Lindbergh marched into the captain's cabin with his familiar, "I am Charles Lindbergh." All arrangements had been made by a U. S. Lines vice president, who had thoughtfully...
Three months ago, when the Morgan Liner Dixie was grounded in a hurricane in the Florida Straits, her 231 passengers spent some 60 hours face to face with the greatest terror of their lives. Kept from their staterooms by sloshing sewage and seawater, they huddled about the smashed furniture in the ship's public rooms, sang, peered through rain-drenched windows at the waiting ships which finally succeeded in rescuing them all (TIME. Sept...
...members of the group gathered at Now York at the Institute Of International Relations and, after a memorable voyage on the new French liner Normandie, were greeted on the other side by members of the Societe des Aims de Puniversite of the University of Paris and by Dr. Donald Lowrie, director of the United States House in University City. It was through their generous hospitality that the group was made to feel at home, and through which it received a brief but realistic view of French life...