Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publications planned, edited, designed, and partially illustrated by me. Previous to WPA I owned a half interest in a Florida zoo since deleted by the Depression; served on expeditions of the New York Zoological Society to the Galapagos, Cuba, the Okefenokee Swamp;* worked between trips as a hardware salesman, ship's purser; wrote and published scientific articles and a children's book-Strange Animals and Their Ways. Appeared in 5th edition of American Men of Science at 25, just-published 6th edition bringing biography up to date...
Despite these hard feelings, U. S. sales to Argentina have cut heavily into Britain's trade and during the first eleven months of 1938 the U. S. managed to ship to Argentina $230,988,648 worth of goods to Britain...
...another vessel, caromed off a breakwater, burned out a bearing. Bello did not mind; everything, he said, was going to be all right. Then tempers (except Bello's) began to burn out. Two Jewish members of the crew reminded the German captain that the Metha Nelson was a ship, not a Nazi concentration camp. He tossed them in the brig. Shore police at various ports of call tossed the rest of the crew in jail for getting drunk. Captain Hoffmann got them out. At sea the crew talked mutiny. In Guatemala the two Jews quit the ship. Bello...
...dead. Just out of Miles City in a light rain, westbound for Billings, both engines of their Lockheed Zephyr had, for some reason still unexplained, quit. Husky square-jawed Pilot Chamberlain, gallantly trying to get back to the field, went down in a gulch, 1,200 feet short. The ship, striking at fearful speed with a 25-mile wind on its tail, crashed into jagged pieces, burned to ghastly junk...
Last week as the British liner Lady Nelson docked in Boston, pier visitors were amazed to see a ship's officer standing on deck, a large rubber muzzle covering his nose, a large rubber doughnut surrounding his mouth, a limp rubber bag hanging on his chest. It was Dr. Richmond Goulden, ship's surgeon, who was modeling an oxygen mask for seasickness, invented by Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Boothby tried the new invention on four seasick passengers during the Lady Nelson's 30-day trip to British Guiana and back. It gave...