Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice protested at first, when the Pittman neutrality bill proposed to shackle U. S. citizens with 3,500 words that added up to "Stay home under penalty of the law." But loud was the squawk from the shipping tycoons when they found that the bill would straitjacket U. S. shipping into immobility. While Washington wits called Nevada's Key Pittman a Thalassaphobe, and hinted the next step would be to make offshore swimming illegal, ship lobbyists got busy on sympathetic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina (TIME...
While the doomed vessel was sinking after the attack by Japanese airplanes, James unwittingly earned for himself the name of here. As he was in the last boat to leave the ship, he spent the interval of waiting rummaging among the sailors' lockers to see if he could pick up anything that was left behind. He found a few blankets and cigarettes...
Although James claims he refuses to endorse any cigarette ads, he said that the cigarettes he rescued from the sinking ship proved indispensable to the victims of the disaster who had a rough and uncomfortable time ashore...
...ship sails out of harbor bound for--no one seems to know, just "Outward Bound." Passengers gather in the bar and try to figure it all out. By the third act the ship has reached its destination, and they all know. With this fantastic idea as a frame-work, Sutton Vane wrote a play that hit the jack-pot on Broadway a decade or so ago. Recently William A. Brady has revived the play and it has hit the jack-pot again...
...crew 'Heil Hitlered' except me, and sang psalms. . . . Eventually we realized we were sailing north. The captain said we were near Iceland, and later disclosed that he was warned just in time that between Iceland and Britain one British ship was watching every ten miles...