Word: steamboating
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...Coates, the personnel includes Joseph Bonnet, who is perhaps the world's most distinguished organist, and Vladimir Rosing, noted operatic director. One of the organs is said to be the largest in the world. Another contains an equivalent for every percussion instrument imaginable?military drum, oriental drum, bells, steamboat whistle...
...Priscilla", the special Fall River Line steamer on which nearly 700 members of the University made the trip from Fall River to New York last night caused the steamer's operating certificate to be revoked in 1921, it was learned yesterday afternoon. Officials of the United States Steamboat Inspection Service declared it possible that the trouble had since been repaired...
Three large murals by James E. McBurney, Chicago artist, were installed in the new Federal Bank and Trust Co., Dubuque, Ia. They represent Dubuque, the French trader, being shown the lead mines of the region by Sauk and Fox Indians; the first steamboat going up the Mississippi, watched with awe and premonition by aborigines on the bluff; the old ferry which bore the pioneer settlers in their " covered wagons " across the great river near Dubuque...
...ship is to the sea--which covers 73 per cent of the earth's surface--what the steamboat is to canal and river, the truck and automobile to the highways. It is the means of transporting freight and passengers from place to place; and just as Americans own and operate the agencies of transportation on their interior waters, highways, and railroads, so should they own and operate enough ships to carry their commerce on the seas...
...process of ratification the Senate leaders have discovered a valuable bit of legislative phychology. Mark Twain once told of a Missouri steamboat with a six inch cylinder engine and an eight inch cylinder whistle, so when the captain blow the whistle everything else, had to stop. Our Senate is constructed on an amazingly similar plan. But when the leaders shut down on the whistle by setting the time for the vote, the senators at last disposed of the treaty...