Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo last week, Cabinet Ministers scuttled in & out of Emperor Hirohito's moat-encircled palace. The assent of the Son of Heaven was required to dozens of decisions, most important of all to the drastic decision of the military high command to ship Japan's entire regular army -some 260,000 men-across the sea to China...
Last week's decision to ship the entire Japanese Army to China meant but one thing: Japan had committed herself to speeding up the slow process of history many times repeated in-three milleniums. At Shanghai,- nearly 100,000 Japanese troops were already involved. The campaign could no longer be fought locally. A new field of operations had been opened and the great triangle between Peiping, Shanghai and the mountains on the west had become a potential battleground...
...library building on your right was given by Mrs. Eleanor Widener, of the famous Widener family of Philadelphia, in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener, a graduate of Harvard College in the Class of 1907 and a victim of the sinking in 1912 of the ill-fated ship Titanic...
...Atlantic. Who, air men wondered, would have the temerity to challenge Pan American on the Atlantic? Transcontinental & Western Air? Royal Dutch Air Lines (K. L. M.)? Onetime Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal and friends? Last week the ambitious newcomer was finally revealed: American Export Lines, which operates 18 ships to the Mediterranean. In Washington it applied for permission to supplement transatlantic ship service with air service...
That foreign trade is a losing game, for them at least, is the shipping man's plaint the world around, for the following reasons : 1) there are too many ships; 2) depressions, tariffs and a thousand unpredictables hobble it; 3) profitable trade routes fluctuate as the breeze but commerce demands regular schedules. U. S. shipping men face the added complication that U. S. ships cost more to build and operate than foreign bottoms because of the higher wages of U. S. Labor. Astraddle this situation, which the Government has at last given full recognition after years of such temporizing...