Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moffet wants a power drive, "Let Private Business Do It." To complicate matters further, Hopkins demands a PWA play as Wallace insists his triple A threat will deliver the goods. This is a fascinating spectacle in all its ironic humor recalling satirical memories anent Ford's famous Peace Ship of some twenty years ago. All we need now is the fighting slogan, "Out of the Depression by Christmas...
...story concerns the struggle of Santa Ana to win its independence from Santa Barbara which dominated the Eastern Spanish Main in 1910. The rebels' supply ship, the "Gry" is betrayed by its captain and interned in a closely guarded harbor. Bronnay, a Santa Ana patriot, gets the aid of Tarlton, a young British naval officer, to attempt a daring rescue...
...marshal yanked a padlock out of his pocket, snapped it summarily on the ship's rail and intoned: "This ship is seized in the name of the U. S. Government-and don't you dare move it." Then he hopped nimbly over the side and away...
Thereafter Flagship Captain Hodges did not dare to move his padlocked ship for fear of starting international complications and losing his lucrative job as a high-ranking officer in the Colombian Navy...
...Congress a bill for $8,311.90. As no U. S. warship big enough to carry the work of art to the U. S. was handy, the Government chartered the merchantman Sea for $6,300. It took two weeks of fussing to load the huge statue on the Sea. The ship's captain charged the Government $100 a day for demurrage...