Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over her mountains and for remote control over rebel bands in the interior. There appeared to be no better way to get them than by a swap of her coffee. To Italy she agreed to send $200,000 worth of her $9,000,000 crop; Italy, in return, will ship four Caproni fighting planes worth $160,000 and $40,000 worth of parts. The deal was not motivated by the recent fiasco flight of Italian seaplanes to South America...
...next month a group of top-hatted Manhattanites, led by their mayor, put out from a shaky pier in the North River to cheer the arrival of the British steamer Sirius, which, with 40 passengers, had made the voyage from Ireland in 18 days. Though the U. S. ship Savannah and Canada's Royal William, both with auxiliary steam equipment, had sailed the ocean years earlier, the little 178-foot, 700-ton, paddle wheeler Sirius was greeted by the mayor as the first vessel to cross the whole Atlantic under steam power. Wooden-built for the London-Cork service...
...screw steamship, 680 feet long, built in 1858. Most vessels then carried about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern accommodated 4,000- 1,800 more than today's Queen Mary. Forty years ahead of her times, the Great Eastern never paid her way, ended her days as a cable ship. Pride of London's show was a model of the late Mauretania, which held the Atlantic speed record for 22 years, was scrapped...
...hero, drafted after the Morro Castle fire in 1934 to jack up, the marine inspection service to prevent sea disasters, made a personal inspection of the fire-damaged Berengaria, refused a passenger certificate. Cunard White Star debarked its 319 remaining passengers, angrily sailed its ship away with 650 personnel, mail, freight. Though the fires were labeled "mysterious" and sabotage was hinted, it seemed possible because of her age that defective electric wiring caused the blazes. Said blunt Captain Fried, "I didn't believe she was safe for passengers. . . . She has had two fires recently. Go look at the third...
...took off at 6:30 one evening from San Francisco to Winslow, Ariz. It turned south to Los Angeles when it encountered the rains that later washed out over 5,500 homes, 200 lives (see p. 16). On course and on time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves, 35, a million-mile veteran, turned back, and apparently flew straight into the swirling heart of the storm. An hour...