Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny, forgotten participant in the Italo-Ethiopian War was the British freighter Santa Maria whose job it was to carry from Finland to French Somaliland two tons of TNT, 200 incendiary bombs, three airplanes and four machine guns for Emperor Haile Selassie's armies. The Santa Maria had got as far as Gibraltar when Haile Selassie fled his empire and the war was over. Captain P. P. Allen was told by the cargo's Finnish shippers, who had presumably already been paid for it, to land it somewhere and await further orders. He landed it at Tangier...
Thereupon Captain Allen made for London, but news of the two tons of TNT had preceded him, and at Gravesend he was told that the Santa Maria was not wanted. Desperate now, he put in at Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, was shooed off, Iried Sark and alarmed the Channel Islands' Royal Court into passing a special ordinance against him. The Santa Maria lolloped around Land's End to autonomous Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, but the British Home Office bestirred itself to forbid Captain Allen to unload...
Last week Belgium was added to the countries that considered the Santa Maria's load a hot potato. The freighter headed south, supposedly bound for Arabia and China. But the shippers had been busy. The Santa Maria turned about, met a Belgian barge on the high seas, unloaded TNT and incendiary bombs and then, with only a few innocent planes and machine guns, once more sailed up the Thames and put in at East London's Silvertown. Once more Captain Allen pleaded his case in vain before London port authorities, left for Spain with a cargo of sugar...
...Animals' Carnival," Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion, Cocks and Hens, Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals), Tortoises. The Elephant, Kangaroos, Personages with long ears, The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest, Planists, The Swan (Solo xioloncello, J. Langendoen), Finale. Planes: Jesus Maria Sauroma Leo Litwin Prize Song from "Die Meisteringer von Nurnberg Wagner *"Pathetic" Symphony, No. 6 Tchaikovaky Third movement--Alegro molto vivace -- *Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Herbert *Song of the Volga Bargemen Arr. by Glasennov *American Patrol Meacham -- Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Apted and his cohorts arrived on the scene by 10:50 o'clock and started their job of picking up Bursar's cards. Shortly afterwards four police cars from Cambridge headquarters appeared, and a few minutes later the "Black Maria" was met with cheers...