Word: hamburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Moeller became captain of the Lackawanna Railroad's river barges. In 1903, he became captain of tugs for the Hamburg-American Line. In 1920, he retired and went to live in Hoboken where he often sat in the back-room of Meyer's Hotel, drinking beer with other old captains. Last week he died. His daughter obeyed his request to place, under the dirty, salt-stiffened pilot coat in which Henry Moeller was buried, the purple silk umbrella which he had carried on all his voyages, short or long...
Slightly more powerful and of slightly greater draft than the Bremen (product of Bremen's Weser shipyards) is the Europa (built by Hamburg's Blohm & Voss. builders also of the Leviathan, Majestic and Berengaria, all seized from Germany after the War). But to the casual eye the speediest sisters are exact twins, externally...
...crossed in 18 minutes less than the Bremen's best time, thereby setting a world record of 4 days, 17 hr., 6 min. from Cherbourg to Ambrose Lightship. Meantime her owners announced that they were in the process of entering into a 50-year "commercial alliance" with the Hamburg-American line. Control of each company will remain with its present officers. The tonnages "allied" are so great that they will operate side by side as the third largest mercantile unit in the world, the second being P. & O., and 'the first Royal Mail, both British...
Fifteen quietly dressed young women and an old one richly clad created a terrific furore in Berlin's big Lehrter Station last week, merely because they insisted on taking the train for Hamburg...
...right. "Help, help, police!" they cried, but they got no help, and with a derisive toot the locomotive began to puff and chuff. Gretchen and the other young women waved goodbye, and the richly dressed old woman sprinkled eau de cologne on her handkerchief, dabbed her forehead. At Hamburg, like the watchful and virtuous chaperone of a bevy of schoolgirls, she shepherded her 15 charges aboard the spick-and-span steamer Eubee...