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...famous old sub name. Long before Robert Fulton puffed up the Hudson in his steamboat in 1807, he was experimenting with a long, platter-shaped submarine named Nautilus.* Jules Verne used the name for the spike-nosed boat commanded by Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Over the years, two U.S. Navy subs have been christened Nautilus, and the best-remembered of them was the monster 3,000-ton boat of World War II fame. Launched in 1930, she was huge and .deadly, twice as big as ordinary fleet boats, with a pair of six-inch guns...
...Cheers. Portlanders have been wondering about Reed for a long time. It was founded (in 1911) with money left by a Portland steamboat and mining tycoon named Simeon Gannett Reed. Its first president, William T. Foster, had a knack for gathering bright scholars, and soon such men as Economist Paul Douglas, now U.S. Senator from Illinois, and Physicist Karl T. Compton, later president of M.I.T., were teaching there...
Neither Fancy's confident talk nor his building program impressed Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson.* Said he last week: "The railroad statements are misleading ... The railroad plant today, compared to the size of the job it has to perform, is not nearly as good as in 1941. I would say that the outlook on the freight-car situation today is gloomier than it ever has been...
Better than Steamboating. Now the nation's No. 1 handicapper, Jack Campbell has been figuring horses most of his life. The son of a Mississippi steamboat captain, he discovered at an early age that he could make up to $10,000 a year pitting his judgment against the bookies'. It beat steamboating, but no one, he figured, could beat the bookies forever...
...Build Us... O My Congress." "There is a delusion," he said, "which causes America to sink large quantities of money into our American rivers, and that is the toot of a steamboat whistle. Somehow it is believed that if we can only have a steamboat whistle tooting through the heart of the corn belt there will be enormous riches . . ." He was attacking the feasibility of authorizing $250 million more for the celebrated Pick-Sloan development on the Missouri River. Said Fair Dealer Douglas: "I think it is a very serious question whether the United States of America needs a nine...