Word: ship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mailroom clerks stiffened their sinews to grapple with the hundreds of thousands of cards and gifts-from fruitcake and ship models to luggage and buck deer-that stack up every year, the week before Christmas. Secret Service men could infinitesimally relax: Christmastime is a slow season for cranks & crackpots...
...declared that it "shares the wish that Finland should be assisted as much as possible, both materially and morally," but significantly added that it would "direct its effort to maintaining the independence and neutrality of Sweden." This was believed to mean that the Government would allow other countries to ship materials through Sweden, but would not itself supply arms or munitions...
...Relief Ship Relief...
...must all put our shoulders to the wheel and drive the ship of state down the middle of the road...
Scores. At week's end, reported losses of neutral and Allied shipping from all causes totaled only 15 vessels, 65,634 tons, of which 10,086 tons was the big British refrigerator ship Doric Star which radioed from the South Atlantic that she was being attacked, was heard from no more. Probable assailant: the German raider Admiral Scheer. Germany claimed a grand total of 194 merchantmen (68 neutral, for which she was "sorry") with a tonnage of 735,768-nearly 250,000 tons a month, which would be about one-fourth the highest monthly figure reached in World...