Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...travesty on Boston's once illustrious government will continue. The Treasury may be raided at will, while protection for life and property stands at a low ebb; offices that once attracted the finest men in the Commonwealth will be doled out to political parasites, barnacles on the Ship of State. The old order changeth not, and if Diogenes should come to Boston he would have a long, weary walk...
That is the position of the captain of a ship. But, even in that case, great weight is given to his determination, and the matter is to be judged on the facts as they appeared then, and not merely in the light of the event...
Their defense was brutally simple. They were flyers of the Red Army, had embarked on a Soviet ship at Odessa "under orders," not knowing where they were being sent or for what...
...thousand 12-oz. wine bottles, duly corked and sealed, bobbed placidly this summer on the rolling bosom of the Pacific. Only too glad was the California State Fisheries Laboratory, which released them from its ship the Bluefin, to have lucky fishermen find them floating in the deep. For the bottles which contained not wine but sand and a return postcard, were released to test the ocean drift which carries the pelagic eggs and larvae of sardines. Last week it was reported that only 150 bottles had been found. The farthest traveler had drifted 400 miles south, to Lower California...
...cryolite trade. '"Salt" maintains its monopoly with ease since the mines discovered by the Eskimos at Ivigtut, Greenland, remain the only ones in the world. Because the mining season is necessarily short, "Salt" usually gets but two shipments annually on little Scandinavian freighters. Last week, however, the good ship Einvik docked at South Philadelphia for the third time this year, plans still another trip, which will be a record...