Word: shipped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus-for the short term-greater or less Chinese success in resisting Japan is directly dependent: 1) upon how much finished war material the Soviet Union is willing and able to ship over remaining inland routes, as the Japanese have already cut the best; 2) on Chinese ability to equip themselves with the products of new arsenals set up in the Wild West...
...three-day and three-night celebration last week. Chains of brightly colored bulbs stretched from minaret to minaret of the treasured Mosques of Ayasofia, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mohammed the Conqueror. Below, in the four-mile stretch of the Golden Horn the Turkish fleet lay at anchor, with ship searchlights playing nightly over the city...
Marooned on the deck of the wallowing ship, the crew ran up distress signals* on main-truck and foremast, slung the Stars and Stripes upside-down from the shrouds. Captain Milton dived into the flooded cabin, brought up a case of whiskey, some canned salmon, a flask of water. Diving down again, he found the ship's cat, Fluffy, on a shelf above water level in the cabin, brought her up in a sea bag, along with blankets, the ship's chronometer, a sextant, a flashlight, a picture of his wife...
...attract the attention of the U. S. Liner American Banker by soaking their blankets in gasoline and setting them afire, then signaling for help with a flashlight. Carried to London and back to the U. S. by the rescuer, Captain Milton and crew were grimly resentful toward the ship that passed them by. Swore Milton: "If I'd had a rifle I'd have taken a shot at them...
...Line, which usually happens to have a ship on the spot when disaster strikes in the Atlantic, expects no reward for the rescues its ten ships so frequently effect. Last week, as luck would have it, the U. S. Liner American Traveler was just 70 miles off when fire broke out in the hold of the 21,046-ton, U. S.-bound Hamburg-American liner Deutschland 200 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. At the Deutschland's SOS the Traveler doubled back, stood by with the Norwegian Europe until the Germans whipped the fire...