Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after election. Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock was in San Francisco about to embark with two friends on the S. S. Maui for a fortnight's business-&-pleasure trip to Hawaii. Three hours before sailing time a messenger handed Mr. Woodcock a government telegram from Washington. His face puckered as he read it. Cancelling his bookings, letting his friends sail without him, he explained to newsmen: "President Hoover has called me East for a conference...
...shipping tycoons wished it to be understood that this was by no means a merger of British lines such as has been insistently hinted ever since Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd cut out competitive sailings, elected unified boards of directors last spring. The British scheme is a "gentleman's agreement." The Britons frankly admitted that one of the most important objects was to fight German, French, Dutch competition in the North Atlantic. Whether this "gentleman's agreement" would grow into something considerably stronger, they refused to prophesy. Immediate results: next week only one ship...
Great object of the agreement is that not more than one ship of the combine shall sail from a given port on a given day. This will affect hordes of longshoremen, freight handlers, railwaymen, harbor workers...
...attitude was reflected in the box office returns. The Cos sacks gave performances in Greenwich (Conn.), Philadelphia, Montclair (N. J.), & Richmond, three more Manhattan ones, then started their tour.* Individual artists rarely perform more than three times a week. The Don Cossacks will sing practically every night until they sail back to Europe in mid-December...
Dead Germans. That the people should thus behave was to be expected, but at the fortress in which President Washington Luis sat officers, too, lost their heads. They saw the Hamburg-South American liner Baden sail out of Rio bound for Buenos Aires, her decks teeming with Spanish emigrants. To stop her they fired three blank signal shots. The Baden steamed on. The fourth shot was a shrapnel shell. Bursting on deck it killed 23 Spanish emigrants, four German sailors, wounded forty others...