Word: stacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation...
...last week he marshaled his lady, his three children (Rose Maureen, 13, Shane William, 10, Brian James, 6) a nanny (nurse), an aide-de-camp, a valet, a maid, a secretary, a lady in waiting, three dogs, 28 trunks and suitcases onto the four-stacker Aquitania in Southampton (see cut), and in a grey drizzle set sail for Halifax...
Some 3,000 civilians sailed from Manhattan for Europe last week. The Cunard White Star Line's Queen Mary took out 1,228; the graceful old Aquitania (probably the only four-stacker remaining afloat) carried 483; the Holland-America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam had 500 aboard...
...ground out 90. On the Reynolds, whipped together from keel up in 24½ days, it claimed a world's record. (It reminded Hingham's 34-year-old General Superintendent, Samuel L. Wakeman, of how his father, a Bethlehem Steel vice president, had turned out a four-stacker in 45 days at nearby Squantum during World...
...destroyer Murray sighted the Japanese hospital ship Taka-sago Maru, bore down on her and ordered her to heave to. In two small boats, a party of 26 heavily armed Americans, led by the Murray's executive officer, Lieut. Commander Robert H. White, approached the dingy white two-stacker...