Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the fastest British ship in service was sold to the knackers for ?80,000 to be broken up for scrap. Because she was the world's biggest, longest, fastest liner at her launching in 1907, because for nearly a quarter-century she flew the Blue Ribbon speed pennant of the North Atlantic, the passing of R. M. S. Mauretania marked for many an ocean-going oldster...
...Death Files East" is a thriller which improves as it progresses. Hollywood machinery creaks dismally and obviously in the beginning, but as passengers drop dead in the aisles of a transcontinental air liner and the race against time seems more and more hopeless, it is possible to arouse interest. The solution has twist much as an O. Henry short story and left us with a satisfied feeling. The Oriental, whose name we didn't get, was much too charming to be an international thief. The valuable papers were delivered to Washington into the safe hands of the Patent Office...
Typical of the whole show was On Shipboard by Henry Bacon (see cut), showing a group of hardy passengers on a liner of the swinging lamp era trying to forget their interior troubles. Artist Bacon was an excellent draughtsman with an instinctive sense of composition but beyond that his artistic mind did not rise. Yet in the ingenuous 1870's his name meant much in the art world. Wounded in the Civil War, he went to Paris to recuperate and study art, spending most of his life thereafter in Europe. A pupil of the painstaking Jean Leon Gerome, Alexandre...
...finally been dragged off the New Jersey beach where she grounded in flames seven months ago, was sold for scrap to Union Shipbuilding Co. of Baltimore. Price: $33,605. Abandoned by her owners and underwriters, condemned by the Navy as unfit for further use, the $5,000,000 Ward liner had been taken over by the Army as a menace to navigation, sold to the highest bidder...
...Douglas, on its last flight, successfully made contact with the Matson liner Mariposa 400 mi. at sea, flew back to Oakland. Promptly Major Snow telegraphed his resignation to Washington. Director Vidal accepted it without comment...