Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FAMILY CRUISE - Helen Ashton - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A Mediterranean cruise, family problems, happy endings. Author Ashton's Dr. Serocold promised better things...
...agents in countries where the U. S. has extraterritorial rights, to arrest and send home any U. S. citizen wanted on criminal charges at home. Thus by acting speedily the President and Congress won a race with the slow-moving freighter Maiotis, still maundering last week somewhere in the Mediterranean with its lone passenger. Henceforth Samuel Insull cannot safely land in such countries as China, Egypt, Morocco. ¶ To Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, the President sent a letter last week advocating passage of a bill taxing employers 5% of the amount of their payrolls...
...marine life and of many another aspect of the sea's vast and various lore, oceanographers must record temperatures not only at the surface but at considerable depths. Nearly a century ago a Frenchman named Aimé used a "reversing thermometer" for taking depth temperatures in the Mediterranean. This instrument had a constriction in the tube above the bulb. Having been lowered to a measured depth, it was flipped upside down by some such expedient as slipping a weight down the line to actuate a lever at the end. This upset broke the thread of mercury at the constriction...
...Warner). A jealous wife (Ruth Chatterton) shoots her husband's mistress. Thereafter, the husband (Adolphe Menjou) fixes her with a bilious eye, waiting for her to confess. When this happens, she goes mad and he feels sorry. When last seen the couple are on a terrace above the Mediterranean, he a misanthrope and she a crackpot, brooding harmlessly in deckchairs...
Henry Herbermann did not remain a truckman for long. For some $60.000 he bought and became president of Export Steamship Corp., which operates between New York and the Mediterranean. When after the War the Federal Government set out to restore the U. S. merchant marine to its oldtime glory by means of mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, Exporter Herbermann got the first mail contract. His subsequent activities were aired last year before the Senate committee investigating air and ocean mail contracts. Discoveries: 1) the Shipping Board spent $1,825,000 to repair 18 ships which it sold bolt...