Word: steamboated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they serve only that company.) Next come St. Louis' Mississippi Valley Barge Lines, Pittsburgh's Union Barge Line and the American Barge Line Co. of Jeffersonville, Ind. On their newest craft, the skippers don't have to smell their way through fog, as Sam Clemens and Steamboat Bill used to. Radar does the trick nowadays...
...Disaster struck the soo-ft. Mississippi towboat Natchez, namesake of the steamboat which raced the Robert E. Lee. The swollen river's current smashed the vessel into a bridge pier near Greenville, Miss. She rolled over and sank in 30 seconds. Thirteen of her crew were saved; another 13 drowned...
Until it came time to move, the Atlanta Constitution never realized how much junk it had around the house. There was a steamboat wheel in a tobacco-stained corner, a stuffed mallard duck suspended uncertainly over the city desk, a sign that said: DON'T STARE AT THE EDITOR-YOU MAY BE CRAZY YOURSELF SOME...
...empire-building dreams and merry generosity. Richard King, an Irishman's son, worked as a jeweler's apprentice in Orange County, N.Y., didn't like it and stowed away on a ship. He found seafaring more to his taste, and before many years was running a steamboat on the Rio Grande. During the war with Mexico he laid by a nest egg hauling supplies by boat to General Zachary Taylor's troops. Six years later, on the advice of his great & good friend Robert E. Lee, then a lieutenant colonel of Engineers, Captain King bought...
...World center of French culture. Its haughty aristocracy were the French and Spanish families, the Creoles. It was a Babylon where English, Spanish, French, Germans, Italians, and Yankees danced, drank and gambled while the Negro population celebrated voodoo rites in Congo Square. In 1812 the first steamboat, the Orleans, chuffed down the river and opened a new era of trade and commerce. In 1897 the city fathers legalized prostitution, confining the houses to a section northwest of the French Quarter, which thereupon became sarcastically known as Storyville, after Councilman Sidney Story, who sponsored the law.* He was Mayor Morrison...