Word: shiploading
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Toward New York, last week, plowed the black Italian freighter Tagliamento, laden with a cargo of white Carrara marble. In the yards of C. D. Jackson Co., Manhattan stone importers, marblemen waited its arrival. For nine months, not a shipload of Carrara had left Italy. What was once the bread-and-butter of all marbles had become a U. S. rarity...
...Indictment. Every year France sends a dismal shipload of some 700 convicts to her penal colony in French Guiana -north of Brazil, southeast of Venezuela. Here the condemned, one-half of whom die in the first year, eke out a prison sentence with hard labor, followed by continued exile; the avowed purpose being: "expiation of crime, regeneration of the guilty, and the protection of Society." That the purpose has been sadly travestied is common gossip abroad, but Blair Niles went to see for herself...
...that any man who starts the picture poor and shows enough initiative must end the picture rich. The process herein is advertising; the advertised product, a sanitarium. The young man sells "bracing air at $2 a sniff," and most of the comedy occurs on a voyage of the first shipload of patients to the haven. They are set upon by rum-runners, whom the young man defeats by dressing as a girl and touching the hard captain's heart. Claire Windsor, as the young man's despairing (of poverty) wife, gives a stiff and incomplete performance. Mr. Moore...
...silver filled stocking. A fool invests in wildcat stock. But a Manchurian War Lord invests in munitions. Chang Tso-Lin, sitting at Mukden, took inventory of his assets. He decided to diversify and strengthen his holdings by new purchases. He prepared for Spring "maneuvers." So he bought a shipload of French munitions. He tried to buy a few warehouses full of Italian arms which were encumbering the vicinity of Peking, but negotiations fell through so he sent to Holland and bought a big shipment of arms that was stranded there in 1918 after the War. Then he hired a Mexican...
...Peninsula. I should suggest that Dr. Frank Crane and H. L. Mencken he included in that party; then, to complete it, Ben Hecht, D. H. Lawrence and Justice Ford. What a happy time they would all have! Seriously, what could be better in warm weather like this, than a shipload of conveniently opposed viewpoints, outside the three-mile limit, with a fair breeze and a cool coral island as destination. I should like to describe the Tusitala. I think that it is a three-masted, square-rigged schooner. Is that right, my salty lads...