Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve nations at the Nyon conference to register their submarines and withdraw from definite trade routes in the Mediterranean...
...International protection for merchant ships sticking to these trade routes...
...England's Henry VII and sailed westward from Bristol, his destination was Asia, in particular Mecca, which he had already visited. On board the little three-masted Mathew were 18 men. Crammed under her planks were such trinkets, knives and cloths that "heathens and infidels" delight to trade for, and in the master's cupboard the commission by which His Majesty agreed to take only 20% of the profits of the trip...
...passage, save 400 miles if the still untraversed Fury and Hecla Strait were navigable. In 1858, after his fifth attempt, Captain Leopold McClintock claimed that he "steamed through the clear water of Bellot Strait this morning and made fast to the ice across its western outlet." Though many small trade-ships may have used its 30 tortuous miles in the past 80 years, on the record it has remained uncharted, impassable...
...Klingenberg, from the deck of the Schooner Aklavik, eastbound to Baffin Island, and astonished Eskimo cheers from both crews echoed through the rock-bound channel. That night captains of both vessels described from their anchorages to Canadian Broadcasting Co. and NBC audiences their historic meeting. Hopeful for the growing trade of the North were residents and sponsors of Churchill that somehow Northwest Passage II would bring business, help redeem millions of dollars sunk in Canada's most northerly port...