Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four times a year out in the Pacific Ocean, near the 180th Meridian, TIME goes regularly to Midway Island, when the little cable ship Dickinson journeys there with supplies for the cable station...
...cannon at Salerno to troops as they were about to embark. On the way to Salerno the flying Dictator who piloted his own plane passed through an electric storm. Lightning charges collected on the wireless antennae, shocked the radio operator into a faint, but the big trimotored ship roared safely on. Amateur correspondents reported that Benito Mussolini said...
...scandalous" revelation which Mr. Mitchell had to offer the Commerce Committee last week concerned the Leviathan. In 1931 International Mercantile Marine, which controls United States Lines, which owns the Leviathan, contracted with the Shipping Board, a division of the Commerce Department, to run that old ex-German monster for five years for a $3,000,000 subsidy. Last winter, I. M. M. struck another bargain with the Government whereby it could lay up the Leviathan but keep the $1,720,000 which it owed the Government in liquidated damages for retiring the ship by agreeing to build a new ship...
Before setting out to raise $100 to ship him home, the second secretary asked him if there was anything he would like to know about the outside world...
...September 1934 they had been holding a strange man there. He could speak no Russian but they had finally decided that he must be an American. Sure enough, it was Ernest Elmer Baker, dressed up in an old Red Army uniform. He had worked his way to Rotterdam, jumped ship with $10 in his pocket, started to walk to Russia. He had no passport because to get one he would have had to swear an oath, which his religion forbade. Time & again German and Polish authorities had clapped him into jail, but Ernest Elmer Baker always got out and kept...