Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giant Queen Mary (see p. 17). From Poland's struggling new port of Gdynia on the Baltic to New York, the crack 16,000-ton Batory had made a record run of seven days, 17 hours running time, was met by a prepared demonstration of proud Polish nationalism...
...emptying an urnful of Baltic sea water and dropping a ring of Gdynia amber into New York Harbor, Polish Coadjutor Bishop Dr. Karol Niemira on the Batory "married" the Baltic and the Atlantic, committing technical bigamy in as much as Poles and Rumania's King Carol last year "married" the Baltic and the Black Seas in an identical ceremony. At Hoboken, Polish oldsters presented the Batory with bread (for good luck) and salt (for love). Polish-American moppets romped through traditional Polish rites, brought up spring branches, rye, oats, wheat, fruit and vegetables, danced the mazurka and krakowiak...
Next to the Polish Army, the Polish merchant marine is Poland's great hope. By far Poland's biggest ships are the Batory and her sister ship the Pilsudski (TIME, Sept. 23). Both were built by Italy in Trieste's Monfalcone shipyards in exchange for $6,000,000 worth of Polish coal. The Batory has "tourist-top" rates ($176), space for 760 passengers, last week carried 266 and a crew...
...late Marshal Pilsudski created the Polish merchant marine in 1930 by buying Denmark's Baltic America Line, renaming it the Gdynia-America Line, consolidating all lines under one central management, subsidized if necessary by the Government. One Polish specialty is taking U. S. Jews by ship to Gdynia, by train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa (Rumania), by Polish ship again to Palestine Three old liners, Kosciuszko, Pulaski and Polonia, have been put on the Constantsa-Haifa and South American routes, leaving the North Atlantic to the Pilsudski and Batory...
...months ago a Polish-born reader of the Scripps-Howard Cleveland. Ohio, Press complained to City Editor Norman Shaw that he had been cheated of his savings in a scheme to buy cemetery lots. As a routine investigation, the case came to the attention of Editor Shaw's utilities reporter and crime expert, sharp-eyed young Clayton Fritchey...