Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walking delegate then said that for the crew to accept the owner's bonus would be "too mercenary" and the ship did not sail...
...more veiled but not less threatening terms the U. S. Shipping Board Bureau of the Department 'of Commerce let "all owners of ships under mortgage to the Government" know that "the carrying of essential war materials ... is distinctly contrary to the policy of the Government." Off the record, New Dealers said that almost every U. S. merchant ship today has a Government mortgage string tied to it in one way or another, added that the President is prepared to jerk the strings...
Postmaster General Farley brought a message from President Roosevelt: "Congratulations from an air-minded sailor. . . . They tell me that the inauguration of the transpacific sky mail, also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first clipper ship in San Francisco...
...great flying ship was the China Clipper, largest type of plane yet built in the U. S. Glenn Luther Martin spent three years constructing it in his Baltimore factory from specifications laid down by Colonel Lindbergh. At the China Clipper wheel last week was a great if unspectacular pilot named Edwin C. Musick, whose eyes, after 11,000 hours in the air, have acquired a permanent squint from staring at distant horizons...
...mail, ice-cream, Thanksgiving dinners, odds & ends, and 14 Pan American employes to be carried to Midway and Wake. Off at dawn, the Clipper, loaded almost to capacity, flew on to Midway, landed within one minute of schedule in time for fishing, baseball in the afternoon. Next day, the ship lost a day by crossing the international date line to Wake for another night's layover before heading for Guam. Thus rested, the crew remained fresh as the long trip progressed...