Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something new in transportation, a steam car modelled after the old Stanley Steamer, made its debut here Wednesday night with a Yale man at the wheel...
Died. Viscount St. Davids, 77, financier; in London. His severe criticism of a reorganization of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., proposed by the late Lord Kylsant (his brother and the company's chairman), was followed by an investigation which resulted in Lord Kylsant's being imprisoned for issuing false financial reports...
...Fair luncheon, to help raise $300,000 for the Temple. U. S. Lutherans and Episcopalians, who for two years had been negotiating for space for exhibits at the Fair, were dashed to learn that none would be available for them. Two church papers, thereupon, let off a little steam...
...plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster than Glenn Cunningham runs the mile. Whisssh, with a scream of scalding steam as cold water plays on it to wash off ash and scale, it dives under the first of ten "stands"- gigantic sets of rollers each as high as a three-story house and weighing as much as 450 tons apiece. As steam billows in a cloud, the writhing slab flattens...
...this was recalled last week in London as Britain's big, slick Science Museum staged an exhibition called "One Hundred Years of Transatlantic Steam Navigation." By models and murals visitors were shown a century's changes from wood to iron and steel; from paddle wheel to screw, to multiple screws. Last paddle wheeler left the Atlantic in 1874, the first turbine arrived 20 years later. "Grandest failure" was the 18,914-ton Great Eastern, a five-funnel combined paddle and screw steamship, 680 feet long, built in 1858. Most vessels then carried about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern...