Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astoria. L. I. stenographer named Una Cullen was sitting with another girl and two men in the lounge just before 3 a. m. For most of the ship's company it had been a dreary evening. They had sat in depressed groups after dinner, gone below later to pack while stewards and stewardesses whisked up & down the corridors comforting two-thirds of the passenger list which were deathly seasick. But Miss Cullen and her friends were bound to make a night of it. stay up and see the dawn over New York Harbor. They never saw it, for suddenly...
Smutting the sky with great streaks of black smoke, a pack of Japanese destroyers swooped down in attack formation last week upon Taku, the bustling port entrance for Tientsin and Peiping. So far as jittery, defenseless Chinese could see, Japan had simply decided to seize Taku, striking as usual without a declaration...
Thus advertised the Alaska Line this summer, believing that many a tourist would like to see what few tourists have seen?the grinding, gleaming polar ice pack, which squeezes ships to death in winter, retreats north of the Arctic Circle in summer. For its pioneer cruise the company refitted its 3,868-ton icebreaker Victoria, booked passengers at $250 to $390. Last week, laden to the gunwales with 500 "arm-chair adventurers" and well started on its 7,000-mile, 26-day itinerary, the Victoria sailed from Nome for the dash to the ice pack's fringe. Later the ship...
...long years six Russian meteorologists, their families and assistants, 44 souls all told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged it all winter, broke it in February. One man was lost but doughty Professor Schmidt transferred the remaining 101 persons in his charge to an ice floe, whence they were removed in a spectacular series of airplane rescues (TIME, April...
Meantime the Krassin ploughed steadily down the Baltic, across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, up the Pacific Coast, through Bering Straits. Smaller (4,900 tons) than the luckless Chelyuskin (6,500 tons), it had special ice-breaking equipment which enabled it to crunch indomitably through the pack. When it put in at Wrangel last week the colonists, their belongings packed and their long exile over, shed tears of joy. Fifteen scientists went ashore to replace the departing six. Mme Semenchuk. wife of the new station chief, presented a bouquet to Mme Mineyev, wife of the retiring chief...