Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White Star Plans. However, as Mr. Bruce said this, the White Star Line's London office announced plans for a new liner approximately 1,000 feet long, bigger than its Majestic and swifter than the Cunard Mauretania. As soon as one of the slips at Queen's Island, Belfast, is vacant, the new ship's keel will be laid...
Malolo. The Malolo, newest of the Matson Line's 38 boats, reached Honolulu last week on its maiden trip. "Malolo" in Hawaiian means "flying fish" and the island natives believe that flying fish are unlucky. Yet without reserve they joined a great pageant to welcome the new ship's arrival. It is 585 feet long and contains more than 100 rooms with bath. The Matson Line operates only on the Pacific, chiefly between the U. S. west coast and the Hawaiian Islands. It also has three boats running between San Francisco and Sydney, Australia...
Harvard Club of Long Island: A. L. Kowarsky '31, and W. H. Melish...
...second floor of the Baker Library in the Business School a room has just been completed to contain the 6000 volumes dealing with economic and monetary questions, presented from the private library of the late Senator N.W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, by the Senator family, which has built and will furnish the Aldrich Memorial Room to house the collection, with the atmosphere of a private library...
Senator Aldrich represented Rhode Island in the Senate from 1881 to 1911, and was the first chairman of the National Monetary Commission, appointed by Congest in 1908 to study the banking situation throughout the world with a view to revising American banking methods. The Federal Reserve system was a direct outgrowth of the commission's findings, although the proposal of reserve banks met with hostility when first proposed, and was not immediately adopted...