Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixteen miles off Pigeon Point, Cal., the San Juan, 2,000 tons, 47 years old, had been rammed by the Standard Oil tanker 5. C. T. Dodd. Of no passengers and crew, only 42 were saved. Next day grim men sat in the U. S. Steamboat Inspector's office at San Francisco. All agreed that: 1) There was dense fog. 2) The Dodd rammed the San Juan amidships. 3) The San Juan sank in ten minutes. Beyond that there was no agreement. One said no lifeboats were lowered from the San Juan. Another said there were. "The crew...
...testimony could the captain of the San Juan give. He, Capt. Adolph F. Asplund, grizzled 65-year-old sea dog, had gone down with his ship. Strangely, it had been a "friendship" voyage for him. For three years retired, he had accommodated a brother captain desirous of a vacation...
Despite disagreement and meagre proof of responsibility, the Los Angeles-San Francisco Navigation Co., owners of the San Juan, were quick to file two suits against Standard Oil Co. of California, totaling $1,800,000. Their charge: "Excessive rate of speed in a fog, without keeping the proper lookout or sounding the proper fog signal...
Last week Publisher William Randolph Hearst made an announcement in the city where he first began publishing newspapers. He purchased from C. H. Brockhagen the San Francisco Bulletin and merged it with his San Francisco Call-Post. Editor Fremont Older of the Call-Post, 6 ft. 2 in., with a sea-captain's mustache, would continue as editor of the combined newspapers...
Citizens of graftless San Francisco thought back over 25 years, when large in San Francisco's vocabulary was the word Graft, when Fremont Older rose to fame among San Francisco journalists...