Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the refurbished Columbus sails late in December for the West Indies she will be but one of the 30-odd important vessels "cruising for the winter"-a branch of shipping that many ocean lines now consider an integral part of their business, for it keeps their ships occupied during the slack transatlantic season. The cruising business has not yet been materially affected by the present depression except for the abandonment of the sold-out Round-the-World cruise of the Bremen scheduled for February 1938-due partly to cancelations by passengers after the early autumn recessions...
...British Government, not wishing Ambassador Davis to sail home to Washington sore, invited him pressingly to visit London...
Arriving at Havana about the middle of January, the Atlantis will take aboard the Cuban party and sail westward. It is planned to encircle Cuba, spending the greater part of the available time where the best fishing lies, probably along the southern coast...
...made him a minor hero among Nationalists. At San Juan Mr. Kent offered to testify in the trial of eleven Nationalists charged with killing a policeman, warded off requests for a statement by declaring "If I made one, I'd make it in Eskimo," prepared to sail on to South America...
...back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened to, the voyage would have ended very differently. Suspicious of Magellan's behavior,, del Cano and Gonzalo discovered before long that Magellan's real aim was to sail secretly over the Portuguese route to the East Indies, seize a rich island kingdom, set up in the king business for himself...