Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First open hostility in the press showed itself on a rainy day in 1927 when Lindbergh took off from Washington for Mitchel Field, N. Y. As he swung his ship around, his propeller blast picked up pools of muddy water and showered it over newshawks...
...April when he returned to the U. S., and went on two weeks' active duty with the Air Corps to explore the U. S. aeronautical research facilities. He is still working daily in Washington, without pay, as an Air Corps technical adviser. As luck would have it his ship docked on the night of the newspaper photographers' annual ball and the ball was at a standstill while cameramen fumed on the dock for an hour and a half until Lindbergh, his face frozen in the glum glower into which it falls when he sees a news camera, showed...
Sunday passed and Monday. The ship lay motionless and silent in the sluggish swell. Twenty-nine passengers whose papers were in order were permitted to land. Remaining were 908 who had only provisional permits of the Cuban Immigration Department to land as passengers en route to the U. S.-and on May 5, nine days before the St. Louis sailed, hard-faced President Federico Laredo Bru had decreed that Cuba required specific permission of the Departments of State, Labor and the Treasury. Rumors spread as Tuesday passed without change, as New York representatives of Jewish relief agencies flew to Havana...
Thursday, President Laredo Bru gave his decision: Cuba did not want the St. Louis' Jews. The St. Louis had to leave promptly, or it would be towed out of the harbor by a gunboat. Her captain announced the ship would sail for Germany by way of Lisbon at 10 a. m. next morning. And as he had said that he feared mutiny or a wave of suicides if the refugees were returned, the St. Louis was followed out to sea by 26 police boats to pick up any other passengers who might fling themselves into the waters. Slowly...
...constant surveillance. They pay little attention, however, to ice fragments less than 100 feet long, for these melt away in a day or less. At night the cutters simply drift, so no harm is done if they bump a berg. Since the Ice Patrol was started, not a single ship has repeated the Titanic's smash...