Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kern County. Irrigated, the desert blossomed with fruit trees and grape vines at Arvin and on a 5,000-acre ranch north of Delano. Since then, production has been the main business of the Di Giorgio Fruit Corp. In 1930, he sold out his prosperous Atlantic Fruit & Steamship Co., an outgrowth of Atlantic Fruit...
...decades of dutiful adventuring in business, Averell Harriman took flyers in foreign mines, in steamship lines, a motion-picture enterprise, and airlines. He stayed with none of them. His interest in Labrador retrievers and international polo-which he played with an eight-goal handicap-seemed more genuine...
Submarine Raider. Off New Brunswick, a whale surfaced alongside the steamship Keith Cann, hosed openmouthed passengers, submerged...
TRIAL BALANCE-William March-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). William Edward March Campbell worked his way up from $25-a-week stenographer to vice president of a steamship company. During a long illness, he started writing short stories under the pen name of William March. At 44 (in 1938) he quit business to give his full time to writing. Author of two successful novels (Company K, The Tallons), March still specializes in short stories, which have appeared in almost every kind of U.S. magazine from The Yale Review to Esquire. In Trial Balance, Storyteller March has selected 55 of his best: short...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...