Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lapse. As soon as the waiting period is up on his third set of first papers he may apply for citizenship. Government authorities have dutifully checked charges of false identity, of subversive activities, of a criminal record in Australia-and have given Harry Bridges a clean bill of health. Ship owners have even asked the Department of Labor to deport him on general principles. Occasionally Mr. Bridges loses patience, as he did this spring when he sued the Portland Oregon Journal for $100,000 damages. Without naming Bridges the Oregon Journal editorialized favorably on a reader's suggestion that...
...facts made it clear that much more than simple bad luck was involved. Before the hop-off, when capable Navigator Noonan inspected what he supposed was an ultra-modern "flying laboratory," he was dismayed to discover that there was nothing with which to take celestial bearings except an ordinary ship sextant. He remedied that by borrowing a modern bubble octant designed especially for airplane navigation. For estimating wind drift over the sea, he obtained two dozen aluminum powder bombs. For some reason these bombs were left behind in a storehouse. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca, which had been dispatched from...
Celebrated with the launching of 2,300 hastily built Wartime ships, the marriage of the U. S. merchant marine and the U. S. Treasury has, for 20 years, been going from bad to worse. During all that time the bride did little but run up bills. For a number of years she has been going through the pockets of the Treasury for $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year in mail subsidies and steadily getting more down at the heel. Today 90% of U. S. merchant ships are over 15 years old and few are able to travel...
Having, after 21 years of aggressive propaganda, persuaded Federal courts that it is not illegal to import, sell, ship or mail contraceptive articles "which might intelligently be employed by conscientious and competent physicians for the purpose of saving life or promoting the well-being of their patients...
...that vibrations are set up in all riveted joints or welded seams and unhealthy tremors exposed. Declared C. H. Gibbons, technical adviser to Baldwin-Southwork Corp.: "When this machine is attached to a battleship still under construction, it is possible to simulate the stresses and strains to which the ship would be submitted during a storm...