Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northwest coast, Todd Shipyard Corp. (for years mainly an east coast repair yard and boiler maker), with $10,635,000 in new shipbuilding business, started rehabilitating the Todd Tacoma plant for hull construction, Todd Seattle Dry Docks, Inc. for completion and outfitting of vessels. On the Gulf Coast, overworked Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., embarrassed by a $7,800,000 Maritime Commission award for four C-2 cargo ships, induced the Commission to rescind a previous award of five smaller -i ships to permit it to build the C-25. [n yards all over the U. S. ships are being...
...room, the radio agencies ashore reported the whole business to the Federal Communications Commission, which got on the job late, but with the meagre direction finder information available, at week's end had narrowed down its search for the S O S sender to the vicinity of Tampa Bay. Possible penalty: $10,000 fine, two years in jail...
...Tampa, university undergraduates organized an Alpha Chapter of a Society for the Prevention of Goldfish Eating, vowed to eat canned sardines instead...
Believing the story too good to keep, Mr. Sherman told it to the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges, meeting in Memphis, and to the House Dies Committee. By last week, the affair had stirred up not only Tampa and Florida but the whole South, for Mr. Sherman was quoted as saying that Baron von Spiegel had boasted there were plenty of other universities (presumably in his jurisdiction-eight Southern States) who were not too proud to take German gold...
...Orleans, Baron von Spiegel hastened to deny the whole story, admitted only that he had talked to a Tampa university "official" who "exceeded the bounds of courtesy," and that he might have suggested that the German Government would be willing to endow a German language scholarship. He said he knew of no Nazi-subsidized professorship in the U. S. but that he had sent German books as prizes to students of German in some 25 Southern universities. Tampa's President Sherman, standing by his story, snorted: "Why would I wish to insult him? He admits that I did insult...