Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent him up milk & toast for supper. C On Thanksgiving, 1925, Roy Olmstead, Seattle policeman, was caught redhanded docking a load of liquor from British Columbia. During Prohibition he had served practically all of Seattle's rum-running "mother boats" with speed boats which brought their cargo to shore on schedule. His fast launches were said to have got their cues from his wife who, as "Aunt Vivian," broadcast bedtime stories over a private radio station. Convicted, Olmstead was sentenced to four years in prison, fined $8,000, assessed court costs. The sentence long since served, he has turned...
...consenting to dismemberment of Ethiopia. "Augur" pictured the disgruntled salts "cooped up in the narrow quarters of ships of all descriptions beginning to resent the tension of inactivity they are under without visible cause. They have been deprived not only of leave to go home but also of shore leave in the ports where they are now stationed. This has been particularly necessary at Alexandria, Egypt, where the population is far from friendly to the British at present...
Based upon first-class accommodations throughout, and including a comprehensive program of shore excursions and overland tours, the cost will be $980 per person. This will cover the entire voyage, from the time the ship sails from New York on July 4 to its return on September...
...French export trade, asserts that on the basis of the last Department of Commerce survey he led the world on six items. In business with Max Factor are Sons David (London office), Frank (chemical laboratory), Louis (plant superintendent), Sidney (Southern California chemistry student); Sons-in-law Bernard A. Shore (makeup adviser). Max Firestein (hair department). The much kidnapped Jacob ("Jake the Barber'') Factor is a brother. Lately Elizabeth Arden, who operates 22 high-priced beauty salons in the U. S., discovered that interest in socialite endorsements is waning, cast envious eyes at the Factor lineup. She went West...
...thought that it thinned out eastward, exposing at or near the edge of the Shelf the basic granite foundation of the North American continent, some 1,000,000,000 years old. Dr. Ewing's twitchy seismograph needles now told him how thick the sedimentary layer was. Near the shore the thickness was 500 ft. But as he moved eastward, the layer, instead of dwindling as he expected, got thicker & thicker. At the brink of the Shelf the sedimentation was two miles deep. Thus it appeared that the Shelf was really not a part of the continental foundation...