Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams last week loped happily down the gangplank of the United States liner Manhattan, back from Bermuda. His "fog camera," tested during the cruise under his supervision, was to remain on the Manhattan's upper bridge as regular equipment, was slated for installation on the Manhattan's sister ship Washington...
Died. Arthur T. Hickey, 37. master of the American Export Liner Exarch; by his own hand; aboard his ship, few hours after it went aground on the coast of Cyprus at midnight in fair weather. Died. Knud Rasmussen, 54, Danish explorer; of complications following an attack of food poisoning suffered in East Greenland where, making sound films of an Eskimo festival, he partook of the feast; in Copenhagen. Greenland-born, son of a Danish missionary and an Eskimo girl, he knew the difficult, highly inflected Eskimo tongue from birth; spent most of his life studying Greenland and its people; wrote...
...North Atlantic fleets of the Cunard and White Star Lines will become an accomplished fact at an early date. It is the intention of the Government in that event shortly to lay before the House proposals for furnishing the necessary financial facilities for completion of the new Cunard liner" -scheduled to exceed the French liner Normandie as "largest and fastest liner in the world" (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). ¶Adjourned over the holidays at 1:30 p. m. after a furious round-the-clock session which began the afternoon before. Battling every clause of the Government's bill...
...decades has a U. S. Ambassador been withdrawn amid such withering blasts of criticism as huffed and puffed in Havana last week when lean, bland, Socialite Sumner Welles, jauntily swinging his cane, stepped into a Pan American Airways liner and roared off to Miami on his way back to Washington...
...Empire with brightly printed pamphlets such as Dream of War Between the United States and Japan by fire-eating Lieut. Commander Kyosuke Fukunaga of the Imperial Navy, retired. Last week horrified U. S. customs men at Honolulu seized 77 boxes full of this Japanese classic aboard the crack liner Chichibu Maru, name-ship of Japan's Crown Prince...