Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister to the world's fastest liner, the North German Lloyd's Bremen. Last March, when the Europa was nearly ready to be put in commission, fire mysteriously broke out in four different places amidships, the ship burned to "the waterline for a $6,000,000 loss. Rueful British insurance men who had taken a large part of the Europa's underwriting, paid $4,500,000. In July Phoenix Europa arose from her ashes, was launched again. When the ship was halfway down the ways another mysterious explosion blew away half of the wooden scaffolding supporting...
...passers must be paid. Also the amount of patience, time and care required- which might otherwise be spent in making money honestly-is great. But counterfeiters have their triumphs, however brief. Last week the Treasury at Washington and officials of the German and Swiss police came to a rueful conclusion. They think that a counterfeiting gang as yet uncaught has successfully placed in Central Europe at least $100,000 worth of spurious U. S. banknotes. They fear that the success and scope of the fraud may prove to be many times greater, perhaps ten times...