Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve months ago S. S. Leviathan, only giant express liner flying the U. S. flag, was laid up at a Hoboken, N. J. pier as too unprofitable to operate. While her historic hulk grew dingier against a dingy background, U. S. Lines which bought her from the Shipping Board in 1929 tried to persuade the Government to take her back. Their arguments: 1) There were already more big ships on the North Atlantic run than the traffic warranted; 2) the Leviathan had been losing an average of $75,000 on each round trip before she was decommissioned; 3) this operating...
...Meyer Davis Copley Plaza Orchestra under the direction of Bill Boyle has been engaged for the Senior Spread on Monday evening, June 18, at Lowell House. On Wednesday, June 20, Sammy Liner's band will play during the evening at Lowell House, and the Club Touraine orchestra under Charles Hector will play at Eliot House...
Around-the-world luxury liner is wrecked. Out of the panic of passengers and the frantic energy of officers and men, Author Herm draws a subtle analysis of the emotion of fear...
...convincing portrayal of the gripping suspense which holds all the souls on the disabled liner, stranded out in the lonely South Pacific Ocean while her hold slowly fills with water during several long days, the book is a very good job. There is the usual assortment of widely unlike characters common to these one-scene stories: A German professor of sociology, a rich and impressionable American lady, an interesting captain, a ship's officer of the nature's nobleman variety, and others...
...France, was wounded, decorated with the Médaille Militaire. After a job in French Equatorial Africa as agent for a lumber company he returned to France, got his medical license, satisfied a desire to see the U. S. by working as ship's doctor on a transatlantic liner. A more serious medico than his creature, he wrote a brilliant thesis on a pioneer in obstetrics, was sent to Africa again by the League of Nations to make a study of sleeping sickness. Now a respected 40-year-old, he works in the tuberculosis clinic of a hospital...