Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine-gunner in a Saxon regiment during the War. In 1919 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for theft. Released in 1923, he was again arrested for theft, escaped while waiting trial. That same year he arrived in the U. S. as a stowaway on a German liner. Deported, he stowed away again on another ship later in the year. He managed to get ashore, find work as a carpenter in New Jersey and New York. He married in 1925. His Bronx neighbors knew him only for thrift and taciturnity. After 1932, when his wife went abroad...
This week the greatest mass ever moved by man from land to water will go down the ways into the River Clyde near Glasgow. On hand for the most elaborate launching of an ocean liner, known to the world only as No. 534, will be King, Queen, peers, knights, tycoons, workmen and thousands upon thousands of plain British subjects, all fairly bursting with pride at this achievement of empire...
Once safely launched, tugs would warp the liner into her fitting basin where work on the superstructure should be completed by 1936. In the spring of that year she will take her place upon the sea as the greatest ship ever to fly the British flag...
...launching this week, 100,000 people from all over the United Kingdom were headed for Clydebank. Grandstands seating 16,000 have been erected in a wheatfield opposite the shipyard. More than 1,000 invited guests will view the ceremony from the Anchor liner Tuscania, berthed at an adjacent dock. The Clyde steamers Queen Mary and King George will hold another 1,000. Microphones will carry the ceremony to every country in the world. What name No. 534 will bear the world will not know for sure until Her Majesty raises her voice to cry: "I christen thee...
Sixteen hours before flames swept the $5,500,000 luxury liner off the New Jersey coast, acting Capt. William F. Warms told government investigators, Capt. Robert R. Wilmott, her master, was so fearful one of his officers would attack him with sulphuric acid that he locked himself in his cabin...