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...fireproof ship-the chunky, white, 250-ft S.S. Catherine of Bull Steamship Line, having been taken from her regular Caribbean run and rebuilt from keel up with noncombustible materials, As if this were a monument to his regime, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to improve safety at sea after the Morro Castle fire of 1934, last week resigned his job. Said he: "I feel that the job is about done. We have cleaned up a lot of ships and pulled some out of service. We have assembled...
...making preparations to evacuate eastern Arkansas and his troopers were busy setting up concentration camps. In the Fourth Corps Area, east of the Mississippi, Major General George Van Horn Moseley had an even bigger responsibility for on his bank are most of the big river cities, the once great steamboat towns: Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez, New Orleans. He divided his front into three sectors with headquarters at Nashville (which had its own high waters on the Cumberland), Jackson, Miss., and New Orleans...
...pinches pearls at a wedding, eludes the police, picks up a playboy (Robert Cummings) at a filling station, goes to a party at an idealized Seawanbaka yacht club, and winds up, after a good deal of dance and Provencal song, spending the night with him on his toy steamboat. This boat, a fascinating streamlined creature, rather like a cross between the Normandic and the San Francisco- Oakland ferry, carries a well stocked cellar, and gives more pleasure than any of the flesh and blood actors. But altogether the program provides disvertissement, and Rembrandt a little food for thought...
...things now stand, the quarter milers need to improve considerably before they will be winning points with regularity equal to the middle distance squads 'Powerhouse' Berizzi is the pace-setter for this contingent, with Frank Coleman taking second honors. Harley 'Steamboat' Stowell gave early promise of developing into a reliable 440 swimmer, but illness has forced him to scratch from the recent meets...
Second U. S. skipper to sail into Canton, China, was Albany's Captain Stewart Dean of the sloop Experiment in 1789. It was to Albany that Inventor Robert Fulton chuffed up the Hudson from New York in the world's first steamboat in 1807 and in 1825, when the Erie Canal was opened to Buffalo, Albany, now the logical gateway to the West, felt its marine prestige assured...