Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permission to go aboard the yacht while Filipino officers and men were being trained to handle her. Then newsmen were suddenly invited to explore the Lapu Lapu "from end to end." Explained a Filipino official to reporters: "The Lapu Lapu is not a presidential yacht. It is a navy ship." An aide tried to warn him: "If you do not give the press the entire truth, they will ferret it out." "But," replied the first official, "if I give the wrong facts who will be blamed?" At that point a reporter interrupted them: "If this is a navy ship...
After escorting his pregnant second wife to a lifeboat, coolly waving to her as the boat was lowered to the calm sea, jaunty, mustachioed Colonel John Jacob Astor IV went down with the unsinkable ship Titanic while the orchestra played "Hold me up, mighty waters, / Keep my eye on things above." That left a nervous, narrow-chested youth of 6 ft. 4 in., perhaps the greenest freshman at Harvard, to inherit a fortune of approximately $87.2 million, organized around vast and spreading holdings, including some of Manhattan's finest hotels-the Astoria. St. Regis, Knickerbocker. Cambridge and Astor House...
...quite willing to carry on without Guinea. Paris announced that all French functionaries would be withdrawn within two months. Toure's brash reply: Remove them in eight days. While French shopkeepers and businessmen stayed on, 350 officials and their families began moving out. French justice stopped. A ship heading for Guinea with a carload of rice went to the Ivory Coast instead. Radio Conakry temporarily went off the air. The Guineans charged that the departing French were taking everything-medical supplies, official records, air conditioners, even electric wiring...
...victory in the annual 184-mile Miami-to-Nassau race. Then they discovered that Mosbacher had not won after all. Tardily, the race committee determined that the winner on corrected time was a 40-ft., fiber-glass-hulled yawl named Rhubarb. Not only that, but Rhubarb's sister ship, Southern Star II, was third. Both brand new, the two boats were the work of 39-year-old William H. Tripp Jr.-a new designer who is currently the talk of ocean sailors, and who may prove to be the first real challenger in decades to the long dominance...
Lowell's lighted bell tower will serve for the helm of a ship in the opening scene, drawing the audience immediately into the atmosphere of the production. Island scenes, by contrast, will be played on the ground...