Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat." ¶Three hundred members of "Tall Clubs" (men must be 6 ft. 2 in. or over, women 5 ft. 10 in.), met in Chicago, filed their annual pleas for longer Pullman berths and higher telephone booths, crowned Marie Van Leuren, 6 ft. 1½ in., as "Queen of Height, 1948" (see cut). ¶An ad in the Miami Herald said: "Unborn child for adoption. Call 5-4955." ¶Washington's only legitimate theater, the National, closed its doors. Actors Equity Association had forbidden its members to play there after Aug. 1 unless the theater lifted its ban against...
...noble House of Marlborough, it was a far cry from the great days when John Churchill, the first Duke, fought gloriously for England at Blenheim and Sarah, his wife, conspired in the boudoir of her bosom friend Queen Anne. Since then, Britain's empire had dawned and passed high noon. In the twilight of this empire, the family name had been kept bright by a commoner named Winston Churchill. Last week, however, the Marl-boroughs were once again in the forefront of the news. In London, gossips linked the names of Princess Margaret and the 22-year-old Marquess...
...Manhattan, the Embroidery Merchants Association decided that the fitting title for Rita Hayworth was "Embroidery Queen of 1948." Rita was in absentia too (see CINEMA...
...Black Queen. The queen of this new fleet, a 48,000-ton superliner, will give U.S. Lines something to brag about. Designed by Manhattan's Gibbs & Cox, No. 1 ship architects for the Navy, the ship has a high pressure steam power plant similar to that used in World War II's destroyers and cruisers. Though smaller than prewar liner plants, it is much more efficient, and will give the superliner a top speed of over 33 knots, enough to bring the transatlantic record to the U.S. for the first time. Though the ship will have little more...
...Queen. If so, it would be another radical departure, as no U.S. superliners have ever made money over any length of time. A case in point is the 26,314-ton America, present queen of the U.S. commercial fleet. Built for U.S. Lines eight years ago at a cost of $17,586,478 (of which the Government paid one-third), the America was bought by the Government for $10,853,791 in 1942 for use as a troopship (the West Point), was reconverted at a cost of $6,883,424 and chartered to U.S. Lines in 1946. Last week...