Word: shipyard
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...Turkish super-submarines, recently completed by a Dutch shipyard, were welcomed into Turkish waters amid pomp. The Ghazi, the Victorious One, stood at a window of the Dolma-Baghtche Palace on the Bosphorus, and watched through field glasses while the Turkish flag was hoisted aboard the submarines...
Nathan Hayward '95, president of the American Dredging Company, president of the American Shipyard Company, vice-president of the Philadelphia Belt Line Rail Road Company, and a director and trustee of several other concerns...
...guesses that away from the ships, Mary Hansyke's eager and concentrated mind could not for long be satisfied. They plan to go away together, but quietly, alone, he goes first. "Forever young, forever brave, forever proud, Mary Hansyke walked across the old shipyard, while the John Garton moved down the harbor, her keel parting a shoreless sea, her prow lifted to the air of eternity. A lovely ship...
...also had a son in the tradition, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, who purchased the "Germania" shipyard at Kiel, expanded the industry until it employed 40,000 workmen. At his death in 1902, he was succeeded by his elder and able daughter Bertha who in 1906 married Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. At that time, Germany was just getting into her stride in the naval competition with Great Britain, and the demand for steel was enormous. Before the War, visitors to Essen stood aghast at the monstrous flame-belching foundries hastily proceeding with their grotesquely demoniacal output. And during...
...sportsmen, feeling that the bout might actually take place, began to cast an eye on the participants. Challenger James J. ("Gene") Tunney, 27, is generally referred to in print as "the Marine." Press agents have adroitly pointed out that while Dempsey lolled the War away in a Brooklyn shipyard, Tunney sprang to arms, arrived early in France, stayed late. He gave lessons, exhibition bouts, in various training camps, but was demobilized underweight, with brittle hands. His manager sent him to the Maine woods where he hauled and hewed for a winter and acquired a new jauntiness which he employed effectively...