Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smoothly in his stride, Chamberlain cheerfully shunted the suggestion of world stabilization of currencies made last week by U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau (TIME, May 20): "Just as it is no use to try to anchor a ship if the anchorage is always shifting, so it seems to me it would be futile to attempt to bring about stabilization in that way until we can see some prospect of stability of conditions after that stabilization has been effected. All I can say, therefore, is that stabilization is one of our ultimate objectives. We are now watching, and shall...
First president of the union was Maria Gonzalez. A tall, angular woman of 29 notably lacking in sex appeal, she operates a room or as she prefers to call it a "ship" within Mexico City's tolerance zone. Loudly last week she issued her strumpet call...
...organization, the S. D. M. threatened boycott, blacklisting and picketing of all prostitutes who did not join by June 1. Though members of all Mexican unions must abide by an eight-hour working day, Mexican newshawks discovered that President Gonzalez was back at work last week, operating her "ship" twelve hours...
...wireless operator, Sir Charles and "Bill" set out from Sydney in the famed old Southern Cross to fly the stormy Tasman Sea to Wellington, N. Z. Halfway across, the starboard propeller broke off, part of a motor fell into the sea. With the other two motors sputtering, the ship lost altitude rapidly. Sir Charles threw 14,000 lb. of freight overboard, then 34,000 pieces of Jubilee mail. When the Southern Cross continued falling, Sir Charles sent out an SOS, added: "Port motor gone now. . . . Afraid...
...climbed out on a wing, braced himself against a strut, transferred oil from the starboard to the port tanks. When he had braved, the howling wind six times he had a gallon of oil, and the port motor started up again. Seven hours later Kingsford-Smith nursed his crippled ship back to Sydney. Haggard and drawn, he told newsmen: "Bill Taylor is the world's greatest hero. No other man could have done...