Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Robert W. Daniel, president of Liberty National Bank in New York (Manhattan), and Mrs. Charlotte Bemiss Christian, niece of the late John Skelton Williams, onetime (1914-21) Comptroller of the Currency; at Richmond, Va. When the Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank in 1913, he rescued and later married Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, wife of onetime Representative Smith of West Virginia, who drowned in the disaster...
...Loree or any other reputable railroader is entirely in order when he devises a plan for railroad consolidation. Nothing in the fast-moving U. S. has so dawdled and daggled as rail road consolidation -except possibly Prohibition enforcement. The I. C. C. has moved with the sloth of an iceberg. It now promises to come out soon with the basis of a plan. For years the public has been bored with dozens of plans mostly quite unoriginal...
...Manhattan last week the Electrical Refrigeration Show displayed the chief makes of electrically cooled refrigerators-Copeland, Iceberg, Kelvinator, Universal, Frigidaire, Icemaster, Rice, Wayne, General Electric, Iroquois, Welsbach...
...When an iceberg arrives at the Grand Banks it does one of three things. It either drifts off towards the East where it is destroyed by the Gulf Stream or drifts aground, if it is a particularly large berg, on the Banks themselves, where it is pounded to pieces by the waves. Often a berg will skirt the Banks and drift southward into the Transatlantic shipping lanes where it becomes a menace to liners and merchantmen, and provides work for the Ice Patrol...
...weapon employed by the Patrol to hasten the end of an iceberg's life. If the berg has a ledge upon which a man may land, a hole is chopped with an ice axe and the charge with a time-fuse attached, is deposited