Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawaii, 600 travelers were unable to continue because no U. S. ships were sailing. After loud protest from Governor Joseph B. Poindexter, Strikeleader Harry Lundeberg in San Francisco announced that all ships bound for the U. S. mainland could sail. In Honolulu, lettuce jumped from 5? to 25? a head, celery from $3.25 to $9.80 per case...
Carefully taken apart, the Goddess of Liberty was packed in 214 enormous crates, consigned to the steam-and-sail gunboat Isère for shipment to the U. S. In charge of the shipment was a 19-year-old French lieutenant, Rodolphe Victor de Drambour. No hatches on the little ship were big enough for the enormous crates. He cut open the side of the ship, pushed the dissected goddess straight into the hold. Throughout a 72-hour storm with canvas cut to staysail & spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly...
...wheel of this unique U. S. preparatory school was its Headmaster William McDonnell Pond. A blond, sturdy, fortyish Harvardman, until three years ago Headmaster Pond ran the Pond School in Cambridge, Mass, to tutor boys for Harvard. He and his wife Augusta May both liked to sail, used to take Pond pupils for weekend cruises aboard their small schooner, Gulmare, once asked a boatload of them if they would like to work aboard for a full week. They did, liked it so well that they asked their parents for enough money to sail down the Maine coast. When all returned...
...small vessel called the Français, explored the Palmer Archipelago. Back in France, he built a ship which was then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored 2,250 mi. of coastline, discovered an island which was called Charcot Land, gathered a mass of meteorological, geological and biological material, made hundreds of deep-sea soundings...
...with you, Dod,' the men declared, 'even if you sail her into hell!' . . . If I live to be 100 I'll never hear sweeter music than the chuckle of the sea past the Girl Pat's bows, the soft whistle of the wind in her rigging, and the slap-slap of the waves against her creaking timbers as she dug her blunt nose into deep water. ... At Tenerite ... an elderly native came sidling up to me. ... He started to praise his daughter and-well, although to me she was only some sort of a dark...