Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While he was at sea, a movement was launched by the New York Telegram to accord Hero Young a hero's welcome. It was accurately pointed out that his achievements at Paris were far more significant than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal the City Government, long habituated to receiving great personages amid blazing publicity, squarely placed itself. A welcoming commission, including Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Railroader Patrick Crowley et al. was duly named. Students of public psychology waited to see what pitch...
...France appeared Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey, widow of Sculptor Rumsey, daughter of the late great Railroader E. H. Harriman. She declared $1,500 of Paris finery. The inspectors were not satisfied, seized $100,000 worth of jewelry and eleven pieces of baggage. When the France was two days at sea, Mrs. Rumsey had given a jeweled purse to her friend and fellow passenger, Lucrezia Bori, Metropolitan Opera soprano. Miss Bori is a Spanish citizen. Her personal belongings were not dutiable. Nevertheless, the inspectors seized her new purse and obliged Mrs. Rumsey to pay duty on that, too. The Rumsey jewelry...
Capt. Morris obediently jangled the engine room telegraph. Wheezing asthmatically, the Maracaibo put out to sea. All the way to the mainland the Venezuelan rebels, inflamed with the success of the most daring filibuster in years, ate and drank and shouted again and again the words of their Captain, "On to Caracas! Nobody can stop...
Three miles off the mainland the Maracaibo anchored. The filibustered loaded their captured arms into the ship's lifeboats and lowered them to the sea, sinking two lifeboats in the process. Capt. Morris and kidnaped Governor Fruytier were left to return to Curaçao or to go anywhere else they pleased. Brash Capt. Urbina attacked the garrison of Vela de Coro, fatally wounded its commander, Gen. Gabriel Lale, and prepared to move forward against Caracas and the formidable ex-Dictator, General Juan Vicente Gomez (TIME...
...valued at about $113,000,000. Chief fish landed in New England ports is not the famed cod but haddock, one month's catch showing 75% haddock, 16% cod, 5% flounders. The oldtime fishing dory is also outmoded in large scale fishing. Large beam trawlers drag the sea floor with nets, haul up masses of fish in which the smaller fish are often squashed and suffocated. Atlantic Coast Fisheries trawlers have a capacity of 200,000 pounds of fish per trip. They keep in touch with home ports by wireless; bring in as much fish as is needed...