Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above connection, I am assuming the correctness of my understanding to the effect that one's presence upon any ship is tantamount to being upon the actual soil of the country which it represents. Consequently the gravity of the violation...
...When the President or Congress finds a state of war existing abroad, the President shall (i. e., must) name the belligerents. 2) After issuance of such a proclamation, no American vessel may carry passengers or goods to any named belligerents. 3) No goods of any sort may be shipped to belligerents until all rights, title and interest have been transferred abroad. 4) The President shall then proclaim combat areas, which no citizen or U. S. vessel may enter. 5) No U. S. citizen may travel on any belligerent's vessel. 6) No U. S. merchant ship may be armed...
Ninety per cent of the applicants were undergraduates. D. F. Hornig '40, a gliding enthusiast who constructed and flies his own ship and a National Scholar, ranked in the highest ten applicants. Rodman Gilder, Jr. '40, a member of the Glider Club who was entered in the National Soaring Contest last year, also ranked near the head of the list. The only other undergraduate in the first ten was L. G. Shepard '42, an M.I.T. transfer student...
...travelers had only Hobson's choice of liners, no certain sailing dates. Stalled were Poland's Gdynia-America Line, Hapag-Lloyd. Britain and France maintained no dependable schedule. Passengers were warmly urged to try neutral lines. If they were insistent on a French or British ship, booking clerks politely jotted down preferential boats and sailings, but few hours before departure many a sailing might be suspended for from two weeks to kingdom-come. Italian liners, after hugging home ports since the outbreak of war, took to the sea again on schedule, but avoided such danger ports as Cannes...
...Batory's new Captain Szudzinski discharged the lot of them, then called for volunteers to take the ship to Canada. Enough responded, but 200 went ashore, most of them traipsing off to the Polish Community Center in Yonkers...