Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seamen may strike when a ship is docked in a home port. Once the ship has sailed, to strike-or otherwise disobey captain's "lawful orders"-is mutiny. Well within their rights then were the 18 members of the tumultuous crew of the U. S. Government-owned Algic* when they "sat down" in Baltimore on the eve of sailing, lumber-laden, to South America last July. Their supplies on the dock rotted as they lounged on deck awaiting reply to an ultimatum which read...
Military experts 24 hours later, after the fighting had guttered out, admitted that this has been International Shanghai's most terrible taste of war, although negligible in military results. Eight hundred Shanghai residents who had fled to Hong Kong during the past two months took ship there last week to sail back to Shanghai, figured they would rather risk Death and know the worst than remain stretched on the wrack of worrying about their Shanghai property...
...believed by Public Health Service quarantine officers that the west coast seaports of the United States are likely to become infected, for the reason that, since the incubation period of cholera is only five days, outbreaks on shipboard will occur and the disease will become manifest long before a ship from infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted for carriers whenever indicated. Ships from cholera-infected areas are not granted radio pratique.* Through passengers from infected areas traveling...
...Permission to pass through quarantine without pausing for medical inspection, if the ship doctor radios ahead that he has no serious disease aboard (TIME, Sept. 6 et ante...
...mile journey. Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, where passengers changed to a 21-passenger Douglas DC3, and Rock Springs, Wyo. slid by below. A few miles farther along, skimming the mountains at 10,000 ft., veteran Pilot Earl Woodgerd reported clouds but "OK." It was 8:19 p. m. with the ship about 140 miles northeast of its next stop, Salt Lake City. Then for twelve hours there was silence. Finally U. A. L. announced that its plane had been sighted, smashed near a saddle of Chalk Mountain in the bleak Uinta Range. When searchers next day reached it by pack horse...