Word: loss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...within six times 24 hours after they leave New York." Only the Bremen is now left to make such a record six-day crossing to Germany in 1929-all other ships on that run now take nine days and upwards. Damage to the Europa-at first believed a total loss-was eventually found, last week, to involve only a $3,000,000 gutting of cabins, salons and gear. The hull was declared sound, and bulkheads with automatic fire doors saved the boilers, turbines and other propelling machinery. On her maiden voyage she would have carried $15,000,000 insurance placed...
...Manhattan, Professor Huber, manager of a troupe of fleas, conducted his performers from a burning building to the street with the loss of only one, J. Caesar, who did the gladiatorial act. Said a bystander to Professor Huber: "You must treat them gently to make them so obedi- ent." Said he: "I treat 'em gentle or I treat 'em rough according to their nature and their needs. They're artists...
...critics seem now like the bitterest irony? Granted, the Club may have openly changed its policy, but I think that Harvard still might expect from this organization the continuance of a tradition which played no small part in the making of Harvard University. Even if circumstances brought about the loss of Professor Baker and his guiding hand, the work which he inspired might better have been encouraged, rather than have been abandoned for the ugliest possible commercialism. Roger Wilson...
...superintendent of the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, blasting and steamshoveling his way through mountains. To look old enough for the job he grew a beard. When he straightened out several miles of the Northern Pacific R.R. in Montana he risked the loss of $100,000 in equipment by discarding the slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach...
Prophets immediately linked Blair, Bank of America and Chase National in a grand merger. But there were no indications whatever that Chase's potent Albert Wiggin contemplated the loss of his identity...