Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seamen, U. S. ships were the finest in the world. Before the Civil War the U. S. had the best and second-biggest (2,379,000 tons) fleet of merchantmen on the high seas, and carried over 77% of its foreign commerce in its own bottoms. But steam was replacing sail, and the U. S. never took to steam; it was too busy with other things: gold in California, oil in Pennsylvania, the Civil War, tricks with machinery. By 1880 the U. S. merchant fleet was a pitiful remnant; by 1910 it was touching bottom with 782,000 tons...
Four Days, Four Nights. Prince Paul worked day & night from Thursday until Monday to reorganize his Cabinet. A special train with steam up waited in Belgrade's railroad station to take Ministers Cvetkovitch and Cincar-Markovitch to Vienna to sign on Hitler's dotted line. During those four days & nights much happened. British and Greek diplomats worked feverishly in Belgrade to swing the Yugoslav Government to their side. The British made it clear that if Britain won the war with Yugoslavia on the German side, Yugoslavia's dream of a pan-Slavic State in the Balkans would...
Regarding a solution to the first question, it was first proposed to institute shorter meal hours, and thus "eliminate the present necessity for keeping food in the steam kitchens for an inordinate length of time after it has been cooked...
Under the present system of preparing food, cooking facilities are for the most part centralized, and the food is carried in electrically heated carts to the steam kitchens in each of the Houses, Adams and Dunster excepted...
...Steam up he did, and the crowd stayed...