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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning your statement [TIME, Dec. 9] re Carnegie that she did not carry one ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard of her I may draw your attention to the fact that although it was possible to construct the ship out of nonmagnetic material it yet was not possible to keep all magnetic material from aboard her. All canned goods carried by the Carnegie carried a certain amount of magnetism in the cans in which they were preserved and for this reason these goods were carried in the after part of the ship while the earth inductor with...
...foundering vessel to shore, but at length the bubbling water closed over it. Captain Francis and Pilot Frank Moran, last to slide down one horizontal side, were hauled by rescuers out of the Fort Victoria's sinking whorl. All the crew and 255 passengers-everyone aboard-had been saved without accident except a fainting spell which overcame a Mrs. Nellie Stringer of Brooklyn who suffers from sleeping sickness...
States Lines." It went on to tell, in. seven more paragraphs, how Stowaway Salaza-check had been discovered aboard the Leviathan on her last eastern trip, clapped into Bargate Prison for two and one-half days, and shipped back again on the Leviathan...
...Aboard were Commen-clatore Ettore Modigliani.* as custodian of the pictures, and Signer Umberto Malossi, Fascist Police Inspector-General. Off the coast of Portugal the da Vinci wired that she was caught in a gale, then for two days while she was tossed and harried no word was heard. Captain Angelo Sturlese was on the bridge for 72 hours, the SOS of other ships sounding in his ears. When the Italian steamer Senatore Dali, foundering nearby, sent an SOS, Captain Sturlese despatched his tug to her. Dr. Modigliani in an ecstasy of apprehension made repeated trips to the hold...
...steamed up the Thames to the West India docks in London's grimy Limehouse. At the dock was the reception committee: Sir Austen & Lady Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, President Sir William Llewellyn of Britain's Royal Academy where the pictures will be shown. Lady Chamberlain hastened aboard to find out whether damage had been done. Proudly Captain Sturlese, nine medals glittering on his breast, told her that every crate was intact...