Word: blohm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...links between Europe and America was shattered last week, at a single blow. Aboard the nearly completed Europa fire broke out simultaneously at four points, deep in the 'tween decks. Every precaution had been taken against such a conflagration. For months the great shipyard of Blohm & Voss at Hamburg, where the Bremen and Europa lay, had been guarded like a military fortress. No one-not even STIMMING himself-was allowed to enter without showing an elaborately documented pass. Certainly Herr Direktor Karl Stimming of the North German Lloyd-a man of such arresting reticence that he keeps even...
...hull was declared sound, and bulkheads with automatic fire doors saved the boilers, turbines and other propelling machinery. On her maiden voyage she would have carried $15,000,000 insurance placed by the N. G. L.; and in her partially completed state she was insured by her builders, Blohm & Voss, for $9,500,000 in the event of total loss. What they can now collect is a matter of "adjustment." They paid $3 per $500 coverage for an expected building period of 21 months. In London -world centre of maritime insurance- the disaster was declared "absolutely without precedent," since...