Word: statendam
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...ship canal connecting Amsterdam with the North Sea and thereby the Atlantic. Extremely farsighted, the Dutch builders have made a lock through which ships of 100,000 tons could pass-though the largest ship in the world today is of less than 60,000 tons, and the Statendam, newest and largest Dutch ship, is but a 29,000 tonner...
Almost as if he knew what Col. Lindbergh had in mind Anthony Fokker, addressing a banquet aboard the new Holland-America Liner Statendam, announced that within six weeks his company would complete a 32-passenger plane powered with four 600 h. p. motors...
...innovation is planned, except that there will be absolutely no closing hour for revelers on the top-deck "Night Club"-an intimate restaurant purposely removed as far as possible from the cabins of those who prefer sleep to giggle water. As in the newest Dutch liner Statendam, the German fliers will have Tourist Third Class accommodation of a luxury not found in the First Class of many small and old eight-day boats. Today the fastest ship in the world is still the Mauretania but with the advent of the Bremen a new speed queen should reign on the Atlantic...