Word: merchantmen
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Background. Until 1917, the Senate had no real cloture rule. In March 1917 a band of eleven Senators led by Progressives Robert La Follette of Wisconsin and George Norris of Nebraska filibustered to death President Wilson's request for permission to arm U.S. merchantmen against German submarines.* When Wilson called the Senate into extraordinary session, an outraged majority, led by Montana's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Walsh, imposed a rule under which debate could be ended by two-thirds of the Senators voting. But the new rule had a fatal flaw: it provided a method for cloture...
...start British Columbia has strained men's energies. The first Briton to land there, Captain James Cook, put in at Nootka Sound in 1778 to gaze at the stands of tall timber, the schools of ocean salmon and herds of sea otter. Within a few years British merchantmen plied regular routes from the British Columbia coasts with cargoes of furs for China, Britain and the U.S. Pelts were only the beginning. The cry "gold" brought a clamoring horde of adventurers sweeping north from the U.S. to mining camps along the Fraser in the 1850s. By 1885, when a rail...
...Indonesia the religion of the Prophet rests on a foundation of Buddhism, animism and assorted superstitions that date from prehistory. War has always been highly regarded and widely practiced. For centuries, native praus flashed out from inlets and rivers to send kris-waving pirates swarming aboard European merchantmen richly laden with the wealth of the Spice Islands. The conquering Dutch were never able to thoroughly subdue Atjeh, on the northern tip of Sumatra. In 1906 a Balinese rajah, his sons, wives, concubines and soldiers committed mass suicide rather than surrender...
FIRST ATOMIC FREIGHTER will probably be launched by the U.S. by 1959. Maritime Administration has not yet decided whether to power the $40 million experimental ship with an obsolescent, Nautilus-type reactor or design a more advanced atomic plant suitable for merchantmen...
...merchantmen will soon force shipowners to replace 200 of 1,062 ships sailing under the U.S. flag, spend $1.5 billion for new tonnage in U.S. yards by 1971, v. $500 million since 1946. Moore-McCormack Lines, Grace Line and American President Lines have already announced plans to build 83 new ships for a total of $874 million...