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Paper Blizzards. After landing at Galeao airport, the presidential party was taken across the bay in a Brazilian naval launch. At the Touring Club dock, Harry Truman hopped out briskly, strode up the red-carpeted gangplank to greet Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his wife "Dona Santinha." Sitting side by side, the two Presidents drove for six miles along the flag-lined streets between long lines of Brazilian soldiery. Cheering crowds lined every inch of the way. Blizzards of paper fell from the taller buildings. Standing up in the car, Harry Truman waved amiably to yells...
...frigate Constellation, the U.S. Navy's oldest ship, celebrated its 150th birthday. Tied up at a Boston Navy Yard dock next to the U.S.S. Constitution (which was saved from destruction in 1830 by Oliver Wendell Holmes's impassioned "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!"), the Constellation was mastless, and badly in need of a "complete rebuilding." The Navy hoped that "patriotic societies" would come to her rescue...
Over the dingy Southampton docks loomed the three gigantic orange stacks, the coruscating white superstructure of the Queen Mary, Captain Illingworth, Master. Her 1,020-ft. length and her towering height dwarfed the battered buildings of the blitzed waterfront. The tugs chugged alongside. Antlike figures made fast the tossed lines. The town band, percussive and perspiring, panted with bravura through the Merry Widow Waltz, Pomp & Circumstance, and struck up the great invocation: Rule, Britannia! Through the mist in some watchers' eyes the colossal Cunarder wavered moltenly. Even Colonel Blimp blew his nose with a Tory blast prolonged...
...route far north of her usual run, arrived in New York harbor the day after Britain declared war (Sept. 3, 1939). She was reported to have brought a cargo of gold worth $44,000,000. For six months she was berthed near her rival, the French liner Normandie. Dock rent cost Cunard...
...back of an extension of the dock, in relatively quiet waters, are two stationary single rigs. Similar in principle to the eight-oar, indoor tank in Newell, they are used for singles practice, with triangular holes in the oar-blades to simulate actual conditions...