Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state luncheon for visiting Sardar Mohammed Daoud, fierce-eyed, austere Prime Minister of neutral Afghanistan, while the U.S. firmed up plans to give Afghanistan $26 million more in aid. The money will be used to fix the roads so that the U.S.S.R.'s landlocked southern neighbor can ship its Persian lamb pelts to free-world markets...
...pass through both the St. Lawrence River and the Welland Canal, a ship would be charged 6? for each gross registered ton, plus 42? for each short ton (2,000 Ibs.) of bulk cargo and 95? a ton for general cargo. A modern C-2 freighter carrying 4,000 tons of bulk cargo (ore, grain, pulpwood. scrap) and 4,000 tons of packaged merchandise would pay $5,955 for a one-way passage; a profitless trip in ballast would cost only $475 in tolls...
...four-masted bark measuring 316 ft. from the tapered stern to the golden eagle on its bow, Angelita is the same ship that dazzled bleak Russia in 1937 when its former owner, Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post Davies, and husband Joseph E. Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., sailed the vessel, then named Sea Cloud, through the Baltic to Leningrad...
Members of Harvard's first class included Henry Saltonstall, son of the founder of the Massachusetts clan, and Sir George Downing, who signed on as a ship's schoolmaster after graduation, arrived in England and soon became a confidential operative for Cromwell. His historical distinctions: he built the street on which Britain's Prime Ministers live, and a clerk in his office. Samuel Pepys, made sarcastic references to him in his diary...
...night before his first (1926) voyage from Vienna to the U.S., "the legitimate father of the inferiority complex," as Alfred Adler once described himself, dreamed that he was "on a ship traveling to an unknown destination with all that he had acquired in the way of treasures during his lifetime. A collision took place and the boat sank; everything he possessed was lost; but he himself, after a long struggle, succeeded in reaching shore...