Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main office, Captain Van Dulken privately told his passengers that they would have to disembark either at Boulogne or Southampton. The news was quietly received by all but the returning athletes who were looking forward to a Jimmy Walker wel come at the quayside...
...HURLEY Southampton...
Died. Frederick Brooks, 74, board chairman of Brooks Bros., famed Manhattan clothiers: in Southampton. L. I. He was the third generation of his family in the store. In the fourth generation his son Winthrop is the company's secretary and director. Eight years ago a suit and overcoat made by Brooks Bros, sold for $6,500; they had been worn by President Lincoln at the time of his assassination...
...passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance, Switzerland whence had begun her stumbling ten-month flight...
...voluminous is Britain's new tariff schedule that neither the Press nor the U. S. Department of Commerce had the bulky document cabled over last week, but copies were rushed down to Southampton and put aboard the S. S. Berengaria for delivery this week in the U. S. Even the new rates are "temporary,'' emphasized Sir George May; will probably be revised after Mother Britain has clucked with her dominion chicks at the coming Imperial Conference in Ottawa...