Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SHIPBUILDING ORDER will be placed by U.S. Steel Corp.'s Pittsburgh Steamship Division, which plans to spend about $100 million on twelve 20,000-to 25,000-ton Great Lakes ore carriers, several of which would outstrip the largest iron-ore ship now on the lakes-M. A. Hanna Co.'s 23,000-ton George M. Humphrey...
...path with Sputniks, now more than ever is the time to be glad that we are living in a country where some of the scientists spend their time working for human happiness, to ease human suffering, and to make life more enjoyable. I would rather go down in a ship that had room for all mankind than stay aboard one that floated on the backs of oppressed peoples and found its greatest achievement in 40 years to be a potential weapon of destruction...
...suggestion of New York Timesman Arthur Krock, was expanded into a highly praised book called Why England Slept. Three years later, on the night of Aug. 2, 1943, Lieut. John Kennedy, U.S.N.R., found himself at the wheel of PT109, patrolling Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved one of his wounded crewmen by holding a strap of the man's Mae West...
Stepping off a ship in Manhattan, Florentine Artist Pietro Annigoni, whose straightforward canvases are as unminced as his words, quickly ticked off a number of his benighted contemporaries and their works. Of protean Pablo Picasso: "Bad for art; he desires to destroy much of the old tradition." Of the late Henri Matisse: "A good decorator; a good designer for fabrics." Of Salvador Dali, generally regarded as one of the world's best living draftsmen: "A genius of publicity. He can't draw." His jaundiced view of abstract art: "We're watching the end of it!" What...
NUCLEAR MERCHANT SHIP, the world's first, will be built for U.S. by Louis Wolfson's New York Shipbuilding Corp. on a bid of $20,908,774. Keel for 587-ft. N.S. (for nuclear ship) Savannah will be laid next year, launching is set for 1959, and in 1960 the 20-knot, 10,190-d.w.t. vessel will start operating as "a floating laboratory to study nuclear power [in] commercial shipping...