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Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman defended the shooting officers, taking their word that the speedboat was a "rum runner," pointing out that Downey's companion had plenty of time to throw a cargo of liquor overboard before the boat docked...
While the Italian freighter Leonardo da Vinci with a cargo of Renaissance paintings was being tossed in a heavy storm last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 23), the steamship Manuka, carrying a $125,000 traveling exhibition of modern British art to New Zealand, crashed in the fog on the rocks off South Island, near Australia, and broke up soon after the crew and passengers were removed. Among the shipwrecked paintings were two oils by Sir William Orpen, several water colors by Laura Knight, a collection of modern etchings by Frank Brangwyn and C. R. W. Nevinson...
Spain. The Teresa, the Orientil, the Beatrix, Spanish cargo boats pounded to pieces on the rocks of Cape Finisterre, more than 20 were killed...
...anxious eight days the freighter which Mussolini had christened the Leonardo da Vinci, carrying a $70,000,000 cargo of Italian Renaissance Art, had been buffeted by one of Europe's worst storms (see p. 16). Escorted out of Genoa by an ocean-going tug, the Leonardo's captain had been instructed by Mussolini to keep in daily radio touch with the mainland, to hug the shore and in event of storm to put in at the nearest port...
...Panama Canal set new records for the year: 7,029 transits, $27,128,889 in tolls; 30,663,006 cargo tons carried. A battalion of engineers will be sent to Nicaragua "before the next dry season" to resurvey and study the proposed canal route across that country...