Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vessel called the Français, explored the Palmer Archipelago. Back in France, he built a ship which was then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored 2,250 mi. of coastline, discovered an island which was called Charcot Land, gathered a mass of meteorological, geological and biological material, made hundreds of deep-sea soundings...
...classic Depression statistic is preserved by the railroad equipment industry; in 1932 not one U. S. railroad ordered a single steam locomotive from any of the big three U. S. builders. Most of the equipment companies were well-heeled, and most of them, Baldwin included, had already started keeping a few eggs out of the railroad basket by diversifying products. They knew also that year by year more locomotives and rolling stock were becoming obsolete. They hoped for the day when Recovery would come to the railroads and the railroads, in a hurry, would come to them...
...railroads during the first seven months of 1936 jumped 26% over 1935. The instant use to which a large part of this income was put was precisely what equipment makers had expected. During the first half of 1936 U. S. railroads ordered more freight cars and more steam locomotives than during the entire twelve months of any year since 1930. Orders for the six months totalled 104 steam locomotives, compared to 28 in the twelve months of 1935; 26,560 freight cars compared to 18,699; 107 passenger cars compared to 63. At the same time occurred what Railway...
...carried the practice to almost unbelievable lengths. A.B.A., convening in Los Angeles last year, withheld indignant comment only because the trial was still sub judice. Last week a special Committee of the Criminal Law Section headed by onetime Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Oscar Hallam, felt free to let off steam...
...Roman Catholics, the 8,153 delegates and alternates represented about 25 states. The great majority boarded at tourist camps and lodgings. Poor but loud, they burst into a 17-minute demonstration when Father Charles Edward Coughlin first appeared to "democratize ' his Union, hitherto a one-man show, put steam into its campaign to elect Representative William Lemke U. S. President in November...