Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate last week had to choose between an estimable old gentleman and a dubious ditch. The ditch was the Gulf-Atlantic ship canal across Florida, on which President Roosevelt has already spent $5,400,000 of relief funds and which truck and fruit farmers fear may turn lower Florida into a semidesert (TIME, Feb. 17). The old gentleman was Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 77, who has been in the Senate longer than any other member, except Idaho's Borah and South Carolina's Smith...
...effort by retailers to escape the Guild's stabilizing policies on discounts and returns, that the question of style piracy regulation in cheaper grades is just a smoke screen. Inflexible throughout the controversy, he last week made the Guild's first conciliatory move, promising: "The Guild will ship goods now on order to Filene's and the R. H. White Co. so that the entire legal proceedings in Boston may be concentrated on the principles involved in the Guild program as a whole...
...Francisco one day last week churned the Panama Pacific Liner California, bound for Manhattan. Next day, when the ship put in at San Pedro, her 374 seamen refused to take her to sea again unless their pay was jacked from the Atlantic rate, under which they had signed on, to the Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her husband Lord Charles Cavendish, started East...
Sole excitement came at the start of the voyage when a great, smoke-like cloud suddenly covered the entire dirigible as the four crude-oil motors started. Spectators who feared the ship was afire soon learned that the cloud was only a two-year's accumulation of dust blown from the envelope in the slip stream...
...Love and Love Me Forever, the blonde soprano had become a top-notch cinema success. She had sung in London's Covent Garden at the command of the Royal Family (TIME, June 24), returned to the U. S. to be greeted like a Jenny Lind. Airplanes circled her ship, flying streamers inscribed with "WELCOME, GRACE MOORE...