Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York city one Salvador Ateca, gambling concessionaire of Juarez, Mexico, often mentioned as the financial backer of General Escobar's revolution, was arrested as he prepared to sail for Spain. In his possession was a small black handbag, containing $750,000 in bills, securities and gold pieces, stolen, said representatives of the Mexican Government, from looted banks and the State Treasury of Chihuahua...
Ever in German hearts to sail...
...recently paid to the N. G. L. $2,000,000 in cash compensation for piers at Manhattan seized during the War. A positive announcement from the office of Direktor Stimming, last week, assured that the Europa will be completed for service in 1930. The Bremen is scheduled to sail from Bremen July 16 on her maiden voyage, and from Manhattan for the first time July 27. Primarily because of her speed she has been placed in a higher rating than any other ship afloat by the North Atlantic Conference of ship owners. Accordingly she will command a slightly higher minimum...
Near to apoplexy, last week, was Dr. Hugo Eckener. His Graf Zeppelin was about to sail from Friedrichshafen on a Mediterranean cruise with 28 passengers at $720 per head, when he learned that French officialdom had forbidden him to cross any part of France except at night, and except by way of the mountainous Swiss border. England had recently blocked his passing over Egypt. Cried the heckled aviator: "It is a heartbreaking struggle to achieve anything...
Quite refreshed after his two days in bed, Elihu Root left Geneva with Nurse Emily Stewart by limousine for Paris. They expect to sail for the U.S. on the Ile de France, famed as "The Peace Ship" The original Briand Peace Pact proposal was brought to the U.S. by Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick on the maiden voyage of the Ile de France (TIME, July 4, 1927); and "The Peace Ship" carried Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg when he sailed to sign the Briand-Kellogg Pact Renouncing War in Paris (TIME...