Word: maru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group housed in the 138-acre pink-&-white Olympic village (with eight running tracks, nine swimming pools, eight wrestling and four boxing arenas, two weight-lifting pavilions, one football field) were the 300 U. S. team-members. Next most numerous were 106 Japanese who arrived on the liner Taiyo Maru. Cheered by 1,000 Los Angeles Japanese, they refused to let deckhands carry their paraphernalia. Three days later, Los Angeles Germans cheered even more loudly for 104 of their countrymen who arrived in yachting caps, blue coats, white trousers. Of the 60 Mexican team-members, eight were Indian long-distance...
Messages from the Lindberghs insisted that they were in no danger and intended to spend the night in their plane which has broad leather seats at the rear of both cockpits but no room to stand up or lie down full length. Nonetheless, the Japanese Government steamer Shimnshiru Maru was on hand off Ketoi next morning. The Lindberghs were glad to go on board; the Colonel described the previous night as "the most uneasy in my experience...
...Cunarder turned south from her North Atlantic lane; the Japanese freighter Toledo Maru came heavily about to go to the rescue; just over the horizon a Cuban sugar tramp crawled patiently on, having no wireless...
...leader, Lieut. Irvin A. Woodring, sole survivor of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers" flying team (TIME, May 5), carried a despatch case containing Japanese Emperor Hirohito's ratification of the London Naval Treaty. The document had been speeded across the Pacific by the steamer Hikawa Maru, 12 hr. ahead of schedule, had to sail out of New York aboard the Leviathan four days later in order to be laid before the League of Nations' Preparatory Commission on Disarmament at Geneva Nov. 6. Piloting the escort plane, to carry on in case of accident to Lieut. Woodring...
...last week the trans-Pacific lines had not thus "opened" the Orient to modest purses. Then into Seattle harbor chugged softly M. S. Hikawa Maru...