Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning. Alagna heard someone scream: "We can't control the fire! The pressure's gone!" Then he awakened his chief, pudgy George W. Rogers, who went to the wireless room and took over from the second assistant. The room went dark as the ship's electric power failed. With a flashlight the radio men turned on the reserve battery current. "Sparks" Rogers then sent out his station call, KGVO. He next sent his QRT "Clear the air!'' Then CQ "Attention, please!" Then "All stations please stand by!" Meanwhile the operator in a little stucco Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton...
Soon after the fire alarm had sounded. the port side of the ship was like the inside of a Bessemer converter. Astern, cut off from ship's officers by the fire, frightened passengers in night clothes prayed, shrieked, sang "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." A young Catholic priest walked calmly around giving all comers final absolution. Eight of the ship's twelve boats were lowered. There was fighting to get into these. "Everybody was pushing and screaming topside." said Seaman Carl Jackson. "The passengers were fighting to get to the lifeboats, but it was no good. They were...
...goes well the Duke of Gloucester may eventually become Governor General of Australia. To spur his popularity among Australians it was announced last week that H. R. H. will serve for a time in the Australian Navy aboard H. M. S. Australia. As an officer aboard this ship, he will return to England next spring and for several months she will form part of the British fleet...
Hardly a day passes throughout the year that four or five large passenger liners do not arrive in New York from Southampton, Le Havre, Hamburg, Genoa, Buenos Aires, Bremen. Glasgow, Cherbourg, Villefranche, Oslo, Valparaiso, Havana. And hardly a day passes that these ships do not set down on the Manhattan docks a score or more of passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel...
...York newspapers brimmed with such stuff last week because of a dozen men who often get up before dawn to "go down the Bay." They are the first outpost of the U. S. Press army, and are known as ship news reporters...