Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate of Beloit College (1906) and an M. A. of Columbia (1913). He has been associate curator of mammals in the American Museum of Natural History for over 15 years, has taken part as special naturalist or director in several expeditions for the Museum in Alaska and the Orient. The first Asiatic expedition of the museum went out 1916-1917, the second 1919, and the present one, beginning in 1922, will last until 1927. At the end of the present season the expedition will take a recess for refitment and an American lecture tour. In the party this year...
...Cherbourg the Majestic, Minnedosa, Empress of Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...
...April 28 the Shipping Board offered its entire fleet for sale. The Shipping Board considered most of the bids made as unworthy of consideration. Others are still in negotiation. One of these bids was that of the Admiral-Oriental Line for ten 535-ft. steamers operating between the Pacific Coast and the Orient. This line is controlled by the Dollar interests. So when Stanley Dollar, son of Robert Dollar (TIME, May 28), went to Washington, it was assumed that he bore a further proposal in regard to these ships...
Died. Louis Marie Julien Viaud, pen name Pierre Loti, 73, French novelist, sculptor, painter, musician, naval officer, at Hendaye, France. He travelled widely, particularly in the Orient...
...most encouraging bids were for the Pacific Coast-to-Orient trade. Two lines, the Pacific Mail and the Admiral Line (in which Robert Dollar is interested), each bid to buy its own route and that operated by the other. There were also several bids for the South American trade, and others for East Indian and Mediterranean routes. The United American Lines (of which W. A. Harriman is Chairman) are understood to be making overtures for the purchase of five of the Board's large Atlantic passenger liners: the Leviathan, George Washington, America, President Buchanan, President Roosevelt...