Word: columbus
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Captain Christopher Columbus peered through the South American underbrush and was astonished to see a pair of natives bouncing a rubber ball. Three centuries later Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley could make his erasures with a new-fangled device called a rubber. Two generations after that a Mr. Farris was collecting rubber seeds from Brazil to plant in Ceylon, East India and Polynesia, and Chemist Greville Williams had just discovered that rubber and isoprene were polymers. Then a Frenchman and an American made the plant almost indispensable and the War set half a dozen, nations to work trying to find...
...sold $9,000,000 in Norddeutscher Lloyd shares. By the time of his death, Dr. Stimming had accumulated 942,162 tons of ships, restored the pre-War service of one express liner and one cabin ship a week between New York and Germany, built the S. S. Columbus, Bremen and Europa, fastest liner afloat. Pudgy, shaven-polled, Herr Direktor Stimming was loved & feared by his employes. He traveled always across the Atlantic on ships of competing lines so that he might watch their methods. To rationalize German shipping, he arranged mergers of small lines, finally concluded a pooling agreement with...
...presence of President Getulio, Vargas of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro diplomatic corps, three judges-a U. S. citizen, a Uruguayan, a Finn-passed on ten final sets of plans from Great Britain, the U. S., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, for a memorial lighthouse to Christopher Columbus in Santo Domingo. When they agreed, they gave the $10,000 prize and a contract for his design to a 24-year-old Briton, one J. L. Cleave of Nottingham...
...First Voyage of Columbus", Professor Usher. Widener...
...First Voyage of Columbus," Professor Usher, Widener...