Word: pifer
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Little Hollis Pifer, 6, and his mother started on a trip one evening last week. At San Francisco they boarded the S. S. San Juan. Next night, Hollis's mother told him, they would be in Los Angeles...
...Hollis Pifer remembers his mother taking him to the railing, calling, "Save my child." He remembers being thrown into the arms of a sailor aboard another noisier, dirtier boat, watching wide-eyed as the San Juan sank, while horror-stricken passengers and crew swam about in oily water. "Oh, grandma," said little Hollis next day in San Francisco, "the ship sank...