Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showing his feather, Home Secretary Sir John Simon said: "I declare myself unwilling to see a single ship sunk, even in a successful battle, in the cause of Ethiopia...
...Ship Subsidy, substituting a forthright system of direct subsidies to shippers for the current indirect and unsavory system of padded ocean-mail contracts. To expand the U. S. merchant marine, the Government will pay up to half the cost of building a ship, lend the operator half of the remainder, pay him an operating subsidy based on the difference between U. S. and foreign costs...
...Franklin Roosevelt who, in one of his inspired moments, launched the Florida Ship Canal with $5,000,000 of relief money last autumn, day after the S. S. Dixie went aground in the treacherous Florida Keys. But it was Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate...
...William Beebe for probing in a snow bank for a dead goldfish. He gave a whistling imitation of an Algerian shepherd boy whom he once heard while searching Algeria for a cloudless site for a solar observatory. He concluded with a baritone rendition of a sea ditty about "a ship that went for to sail with a whale at its tail...
...British contender for the title of "largest ship afloat" which was built on the River Clyde and is now in active service is the (1 George V , 2 Glasgow, 3 Queen Mary, 4 Normandie, 5 Leviathan...