Word: luckenbach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Castle Island, Panama, Lighthouse-keeper Hanna navigated a small boat flying the British ensign upside-down (sign of distress). Attacked by tooth and stomach aches, he had deserted his beacon, after swallowing all the medicine therein. The steamer Lilian Luckenbach sighted him, gave him ten pounds of assorted drugs. Thus medicated, Hanna resumed his post...
...once opened conferences in Manhattan with several of the bidders. The troubles-and they were to some extent anticipated-came from the small number of the bids and the inadequacy of the majority of them. It was disappointing to the Board that lines such as the International Mercantile Marine, Luckenbach, Moore and McCormack, Cosmopolitan, C. D. Mallory & Co., and the Barber Line did not make offers. The Board's ray of hope was that such offers as had been made would be improved by the bidders in the ensuing conferences...