Word: nieuwe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tourists scurried away from the Isles of Rest. On the Furness Monarch of Bermuda's, last trip-the ship was painted gloomy grey-she was loaded to the jack-stays with tourists hurrying home. Last week Bermudians were momentarily bucked to hear that the Holland-American luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam (capacity 1,000) had taken over the suspended Furness, Withy & Co. contract, and was sailing from Manhattan. They were let down again when they heard that the passenger list numbered 139, mostly natives returning to the storm-vexed, war-vexed Bermoothes...
Less lenient was the treatment given Waterman Steamship Corp.'s Warrior, carrying pebble phosphate and rosin out of Mobile, Ala. Bought & paid for by Germany, the phosphate (5,900 tons) and rosin (600 barrels) were confiscated by Britain, ordered sold at public auction. From the Nieuw Amsterdam were taken two German spies (one of whom attempted suicide), 34 German stewards and sailors. The Dutch Government was allowed to take title to 1,500 tons of copper aboard...
...rival for the Queen Mary (81,235 tons) or the Normandie (83,423 tons). America's tonnage compares with The Netherlands' Nieuw Amsterdam...
...which passengers eagerly paid cabin fare. In London one badly scared girl offered to buy her own bedding if a ship would sell her space anywhere aboard. Cluett, Peabody & Co.'s President Chesley Robert Palmer & family, who had crossed in a de luxe suite on Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, on the homeward passage shared three deck mattresses. To get ailing Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, his nurse, valet and physician accommodations, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy had to intervene. Others who squeezed in just under the sellout: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Financier John Pierpont Morgan...
...Broadway. One day this week, the 267th anniversary of Stuyvesant's death, Huston, in full costume, stumped up the chancel steps of Manhattan's historic St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie (where Stuyvesant is buried), reviewed the story of "his" life. "When I came to Nieuw Amsterdam," he said, "it was a filthy little village of 700 inhabitants, crowded into scarcely 100 flimsy shacks. . . . The rum shops were better attended than the churches...