Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raider, whoever she was, did not think for another moment of the Clement's crew. With good weather and luck, all of them reached shore. All 47 were immediately asked a question everyone wanted answered. What ship attacked? One man, apparently a spokesman, replied with assurance: "The attacking ship came so close I could read the name Admiral von Scheer." Either his eyesight or his memory was bad: the name he had meant to speak was Admiral Scheer...
...mile Rhine front from Lauterbourg to Basle, the guns of the Maginot Line and the Westwall thundered at each other the first shots in that sector since the war began. As this activity lengthened into the night of its first 24 hours, throngs gathered on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, awed at the fireworks of a French aerial foray, apparently against the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, now devoted to building airplane engines. Onlookers counted 30 bombs, watched Nazi tracer bullets seek out the enemy. Berlin denied any appreciable damage to the plant, claimed eight French planes had been downed...
From the new Cunarder Mauretania on her maiden voyage last June, MBS staged a special ship-to-shore broadcast, during which MBS's special features director, George Wilfred ("Johnny") Johnstone, who crossed on the Mauretania to conduct the broadcast, jarred the air waves by referring to the new ship as Aguitania. For this slip, Johnny Johnstone took a round kidding, especially from Variety's puckish Radio Editor Bob Landry. Last fortnight, however, Editor Landry had occasion to be thankful for Johnny Johnstone's Mauretania boner...
...crisis progressed, WMCA got a big hand from Manhattan columnists. One reported: "Several weeks ago the station hired an expert of naval code who stationed himself near the shortwave receiver of a local morning newspaper. As secret orders from shore to ship were flashed from England and Germany he quickly decoded them and rushed his findings to the microphone...
...muggy morning in 1932, a 33-year-old Maryland real estate man named Sterling Grover Harris (who had made a good thing of buying Eastern Shore lands from farmers, reselling to rich Northerners) wandering around the Chesapeake Bay fish-docks, found a Negro shoveling savory blue crabs into an incinerator. No slugabed, Businessman Harris poked his nose into the crab industry, found 1) that blue crabs will keep for only a few days in ice, 2) that they had never been canned successfully, because their flesh turned a poisonous-looking blue...