Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic and Gulf, 151 ships and 16,000 men were idle, according to Strikeleader Joseph Curran. Shipowners and Madam Perkins joined in calling these figures "exaggerated," but produced none of their own. Meanwhile, the three-cornered battle went on apace. Shipowners produced the old Red herring that the East Coast strikers were led by racketeering Communists. Using this as an excuse President John M. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine (which particularly hates Seaman Curran because he began his striking career on an I. M. M. ship last spring) requested New York City's special prosecutor of racketeering, Thomas...
Meanwhile, in the harbor a few ships got away, many others remained strike-bound as the two seamen's factions battled for control. Most spectacular victory for Curran was delaying for eight hours the ship carrying Secretary of State Cordell Hull to Buenos Aires for the Pan- American Peace Conference. Most significant development was the shift of Eastern strikers from mere sympathy with Western strikers to identical active demands for themselves...
...first time since he established residence in England, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh piloted an airplane of his own, a new black & orange 200-h.p. touring monoplane which he tested at Reading Airdrome. Built secretly to specifications prepared by himself and Designer Frederick George Miles, the ship is equipped for blind flying, fitted with a transparent, sliding roof, tandem seats convertible into bunks...
...Burr, she was her father's companion and housekeeper for years, married Governor Alston of South Carolina, and in 1812 disappeared mysteriously at sea on her way from Charleston to New York. For years, embittered Aaron Burr used to haunt Manhattan's Battery for news of her ship. Also on view was a portrait of an even prettier woman, widowed by Aaron Burr: Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, painted by Ralph Earl while he was in prison for debt. Though the Burr-Hamilton duel occurred in 1804, handsome Mrs. Hamilton lived half a century after it, died in New York...
...service in 1794 and took part in the battles of Cape St. Vincent and Aboukir Bay. Writing vividly and unconventionally of South Sea natives, of historic battles as they appeared from the powder magazine, John Nicol reaches his highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives from among the convicts on their first day at sea. Nicol fell in love with a modest, unfortunate girl named Sarah Whitelam, who bore him a son before the twelve-months voyage was over. Determining to take...