Word: mediterraneans
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...Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work, the line spent $1,000,000 on salvage operations, shipyard repairs', hotel bills for displaced passengers. Last week, the last two plates were welded on the Excalibur's hull; next week she sails for the Mediterranean...
...Cavalry Division's voyage to war began with all the festivity of a luxury liner's departure for a 30-day pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean. When the convoy weighed anchor in Japan, wives & children waved goodbye from the shore and a brass band cheerily blared Anchors' Aweigh. On the fantail of the fleet's flagship, an impromptu clay pigeon shoot was organized...
...number of routes in Italy, bought 16 U.S. war-surplus DC-35, staffed them with able pilots and smart American-style hostesses, lured passengers by a timeclock precision of schedules. In its first year of operation, L.A.I, carried 53,000 passengers; last year, with routes extended through the Mediterranean area (Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Spain), it carried 98,000, to become Italy's biggest airline. It also piled up a remarkable safety record: more than 5,000,000 miles without a serious accident...
Customs officers were allowed on the mother ship, where the flotilla master explained: "The Russian fishing industry urgently needs more trawlers in the Black Sea." He was waiting for other trawlers to catch up and refuel, then all would proceed on through the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The naval maneuvers were to be held in the Bay of Biscay...
...wells and pools, filled them with carvings of marble and later with bronzes. One of the earliest and largest works in the show, 17 inches tall, looked like a cross between a double-bladed ax-head and a woman, probably represented the mother goddess whose cult once encompassed the Mediterranean world. Later representations kept the same silhouette but added more human details: a huge head balanced on a towering neck and a cloak spread to resemble wings...