Word: straitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean De Witt Lewis, wealthy Baltimore (Johns Hopkins) surgeon, elected last year. Elected last week to be president for 1934-35 was Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring. 64, rich Des Moines internist, able diagnostician, a descendant of Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses call him a ''natural," conversational entertainer...
...value in mid-October) is carried by ships out of Canada's new artificial Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay (TIME. Sept. 14, 1931). Last October the 5. S. Bright Fan, out of Churchill with 253,000 bu. of wheat, steered off her course in Hudson Strait, her compass swung untrue by the nearby north magnetic pole. She crashed into an iceberg and went down in three hours in 900 ft. of water. Canadians feared the Bright Fan's end would make Lloyd's drastically step up insurance rates on Churchill cargoes. But last week Canada...
...jealous of their individual companies. Though big lines in Italy. Germany, Japan and the U. S. have pocketed their pride and combined for economy (TIME, Nov. 7), Liverpool's stubborn operators are still fighting it out from Land's End to Sandy Hook, from Manchester to Sunda Strait. Last week what observers thought was a step toward a truce was taken when Frederick William Lewis Lord Essendon, 62-year-old chairman of Furness, Withy & Co., was elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International...
...Peter, Minn., a patient at the State Hospital for the Insane incased in a strait-jacket from his waist up, killed his cell mate with his bare feet...
From Banks Island on they were never out of sight of wolves. They crossed the ice of McClure Strait to Melville Island. Wolves! They saw tracks of an Eskimo sledge going northwest toward Prince Patrick Island. Tracks indicated that 16 or 18 dogs were pulling the sledge, six or eight people accompanying them. This sight was first reward for the two hard-ridden explorers. They thus proved what the Canadian Government had contended was unlikely-that Eskimos never passed north of Banks Island. The pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter...