Word: z
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American radio stations at Cristobal and Miami broadcast the SOS. Six airplanes set out from the Naval base at Coco Solo, C. Z. The minesweeper Swan was ordered to patrol off Cartagena, Colombia. Pilot Herbert Boy, a German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...
...errands, distributed pamphlets, drummed up recruits among the factories. Communists trusted E. W. Esselwein. He did not trust his memory but wrote everything down. Later he was chosen secretary of the Regina branch of the Communist party and had the job of handling the code messages of the secret Z branch of the party...
Firmly gripping the rail of the witness stand Sergeant Leonard testified that the secret Z branch of the Communist party had been voluntarily given up in 1927. At the beginning Canadian Communists were subsidized from Moscow. To spread Soviet propaganda Moscow sent them $3,000 (little more than a U. S. manufacturer would spend for one full-page advertisement in the New York Sunday Times). When Canada reported a membership of 5,000, Moscow replied that the organization ought to be self-supporting in future and promptly scolded the Canadian comrades "for deficiency in boxing and stone throwing," suggested morning...
...gunboat Sacramento sailed from Cocos Island to Balboz, C. Z. with three castaways discovered last fortnight by Julius Fleischmann (TIME, Nov. 2), who sailed away in the opposite direction on his yacht Camargo. The castaways- Elmer J. Palliser, Paul Stackwick, Gordon Brawner-were in fair health, but fat and flabby from their six-month diet of coconuts and wild...
...because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing her whistle, got no response from shore. Then Mr. Fleischmann radioed the U. S. naval base at Balboa, C. Z., whence the gunboat Sacramento was despatched to Cocos Island with medical supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos Island the Fleischmann yacht is bound for the Galapagos, Marquezas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Suva, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea, Timor...