Word: motorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual volumes with a yearly subscription price of $20; Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. of.Chicago (classified telephone directories) bought National Cleaner & Dyer; Industrial Press (publishers of Machinery) bought Heating & Ventilating; Interior Architecture & Decoration bought Good Furniture & Decoration; a newly organized Chicago group called Neyocy Co. bought the 13 other periodicals (Motorship, Diesel Power, Fishing Gazette, Canning Age, Butchers' Advocate...
...From fifth place in 1929, the U. S. rose to second in 1930. First was Great Britain & Ireland with 1,478,563 tons of launchings last year. 3) Despite Depression, world launchings came to 2,889,000 tons, the highest of any year since 1921. 4) The tonnage of motorship launchings was 1,582,994. greater than that of other types of vessels for the first time. 5) Largest launching was Empress of Britain with a gross tonnage of 42,000. Second largest was L'Atlantique, 40,945 tons...
...commodore of United States Lines' fleet succeeding Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, retiring; Capt. George Fried, master of S. S. America, to be master of S. S. George Washington. Four-days after Captain Randall's elevation, the George Washington was rammed in a fog by the Danish motorship, Malaya, ten miles from Hamburg, whither tugs towed her safely...
...Eielson and Earl Borland were found by a party of 19 Russians under the direction of Commander Slipenov. Deep in snow and ice lay the bodies, frightfully crushed from the terrific impact of the speeding plane. It had been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last flight, a 500-mile air funeral over subArctic wastes to Nome, Alaska...