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...Augustus, "the first all-Fascist built ship," will be the largest motor ship in the world (33,000 tons). She slid into the water at Genoa last week only eight months after her keel was laid, and her great Diesel motors will send her churning to South America seven months hence...
...United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters heated a rivet into a glowing thing of beauty. Frank Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of L., passed it to some workmen. William Green, President of the A. F. of L., picked up a riveting hammer, sank the glowing thing into the keel of what is to be the 10,000-ton Pensacola, first of the U. S. "treaty cruisers." Thus organized labor demonstrated that it knew Oct. 27 was Navy Day, and not merely the opening of Apple Week. The host, Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, looked...
...should I know who keela da beeg pumpo? ... If they not keel heem, I keel him some day myself. . . . Since Tony die my keeds have eat no chicken, no sir. . . . Tonight de bambini and me, we eat chicken till we bust...
Thus, against many argumentative attacks, he has serenely resisted the distribution of U. S. Steel's $521,863,109 surplus. That sum means far more than money to Mr. Gary. It is the balance wheel to his corporation. It is the keel of his ship. It makes U. S. Steel Common (since last April definitely at 7%) an incomparable symbol of security, despite bad years, which no business can escape. For the the last quarter of 1914 it had only $567,359 of profits available for dividends which required 12 times that sum. The difference came from surplus...
...again to climb to the roof of Parliament, for she took her departure for Russia at midnight to escape rising winds. Over the Baltic Sea it was a cold, foggy night. Unprotected in the airship's gondola, unable even to sit down save on camp-stools or the keel, the staff made a bad night of it. About noon the fogs cleared, but radio communication with earth was lost. Dipping, the pilot dropped a note to gaping peasants: "Where are we? North or south of the Gulf of Finland? If south, please hold arms aloft; if north, cross arms...