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Into New York harbor one day last week steamed a chunky, single-funneled, single-masted liner with a cruiser stern. She was the British Cunard White Star Line's 13,700-ton ship Media, the first new liner to be built for the transatlantic service since the war. The British, although stalled in other industries, were losing no time getting their new merchant ships afloat...
Marine Marvel. Even to jaded voyagers, the Queen Mary was still a marvel of naval architecture. From her straight, businesslike stem to her bulging cruiser stern the Queen represents a blending of many ancient and modern arts. Her builders had to wrestle with the problem of constructing a hull of titan strength to withstand almost unimaginable strains as the seas pass under her 1,020 feet, lifting her first by the bow, then amidships, then astern. The propulsion engineers used the power of 50 locomotives to drive the four screws, each 20 feet across and weighing 35 tons, which...
...fight lasted three hours. Escorted by three more destroyers and a cruiser which had rushed to the scene, the Exodus limped into Haifa harbor. As they were transferred to another ship which was to return them to France, where they had embarked, the refugees doggedly sang the Zionist anthem Hatikvah ("Our hope is still not lost...
...facts of the matter were few, and sordid, and readily lent themselves to scareheads: somebody bludgeoned the Walter Overells aboard their cruiser in Newport bay, Calif, and blew up the boat, and the Overells with it, by a charge of dynamite rigged to an alarm clock. From the moment the cops picked up 18-year-old Daughter Beulah Louise Overell and her boy friend, Los Angeles newspapers had a field...
...Guam, captured from Spain in a bloodless operation by the cruiser Charleston, June 20, 1898, became a U.S. dependency under the Treaty of Paris, Dec. 10, 1898. Samoan Islands were partitioned between the U.S. and Germany by treaty in 1899. New Zealand now has the former German holdings...