Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent months at least 25 ships of British registry have been attacked in the Mediterranean, numerous Russian ships have been sunk, French merchantmen have been fired on. Last week the British destroyer Havock was also on Mediterranean patrol, off Alicante. Shooting past her went the long white wake of a submarine torpedo. Out crackled a message for help and whooshing overboard went a cylindrical depth charge, then another and another till seven had geysered salt water up into the air. The destroyer Hasty zipped at 38 knots to the rescue of her sister ship, but by the time...
Japan's naval blockade spread last week to include all 2,150 miles of the China coast, omitting British Hong Kong, Portuguese Macao, and internationally crucial Tsingtao, though by week's end no important ship had yet been stopped or sunk...
Last week this new, shorter Northwest Passage's navigability was dramatically demonstrated as Hudson Bay Company's Eastern Arctic Patrol Nascopie sounded her way through Bellot Strait. Snow shrouded the Arctic dusk as head on through the haze came the bow of another ship. Nascopie's Captain Thomas Smellie's incredulous hail got a booming reply from veteran Arctic Trader Patsy Klingenberg, from the deck of the Schooner Aklavik, eastbound to Baffin Island, and astonished Eskimo cheers from both crews echoed through the rock-bound channel. That night captains of both vessels described from their anchorages...
...Bendix, gaudy, onetime Winner Roscoe Turner was eliminated before the start when his ship caught fire on the ground at Los Angeles. For a time the lead was held by Jacqueline Cochran Odlum, wife of investment trust Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum, only woman entered. She reached Cleveland in third place, won $3,000 plus $2,500 offered to the first woman to finish. The $5,000 second prize went to Earl Ortman of Los Angeles, who nearly lost consciousness for lack of oxygen when he mounted to 22,000 ft. over Kansas to avoid a storm. Winner was wealthy Sportsman...
...Polezhayev's ship comes in when Lenin gets to the helm. He sees his seven-year magnum opus on plant physiology put through the government-controlled press ahead of propaganda leaflets. When he lectures Baltic sailors on the color red, "the foundation of the life of plants," he gets a big hand and a valuable loaf of bread, is elected their deputy to the Petrograd Soviet. Lenin himself calls him on the phone, says he is proud of him. Old Polezhayev's heart begins to run down; the doctor warns him to rest, stay at home. But Polezhayev...