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...nameless, is being built with utmost secrecy as to exact details, in the largest French shipyards, Societé Anonyme des Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire, which had to be enlarged for the purpose by demolishing an entire block of buildings at the upper end of the shipway-a waste tut-tutted by thrifty Frenchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: La France Uber Alles | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Last week it was startlingly announced at Belfast that the Oceanic as originally vertebraed by Princess Mary will not be built at all, that a still larger Oceanic will rise hulking in an adjoining shipway on a new and longer keel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Super-Oceanic | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...first time during His Majesty's 28 days abed a knife was applied, last week, to the royal person. Anesthesia preceding the operation was daringly carried out by Dr. Francis Shipway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...said he had favored the All-American (Mohawk Valley) route for a Lakes-to-Atlantic shipway, but would agree to the St. Lawrence River route (which Hoover is said to prefer) if Congress so chose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Upon the Steps . . . | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...come up the lake instead of up the 100-odd miles of winding river, gaining thereby some 60 miles of traverse. New wharves and new residence districts got under way. But the Industrial Canal, although available to the city remains unused. The city wants the Government to dredge a shipway through Lake Pontchartrain to the Canal. But the Federal authorities for one reason or another feel that the municipality itself should do so. Nevertheless solid business improvement, propelled by the promise of the Canal, has continued. A Florida-like boom seems impending at New Orleans as well as along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In New Orleans | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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