Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amusement of the students, there have been provided steamship trips to the historic parts of Lake Geneva, several yachting trips, and other features...
Pacific Mail Steamship Co. (The "California-Orient Line") from San Francisco to Honolulu to Japan (Kobe, Yokahama) to China (Shanghai) to the Philippines (Manila) and return...
William Beebe, with his marine expedition aboard the steamship A returns (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, Mar. 16), having perused the Sargasso Sea amid high waves, and drawn up from great depth small fishes-red, black, silver, transparent, luminous, stalk-eyed, snake-jawed; but being continuously disturbed by high waves which scattered the Sargassum weed, secured in one haul in his last day there five Amphioxii (believed to have been the intermediate stage between invertibrate and vertibrate life). They have a cartilaginous backbone. The value of the catch is that hitherto Amphioxii have seldom been known far from shore...
...Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Corporation (AGWI ) . Against this company, for four years (1917 to 1920) was assessed a tax of $9,913,841, including a penalty of $830,808 for fraud. It was charged that the company was worth $9,909,407 but, by concealing its assets, managed to compromise the tax for $2,600,000- a loss to the Government of more than...
...historic occasion marked by the presence of 5,000 excited Jews, for the President Arthur was inaugurating a new steamship line and carrying the flag of Judea (six-pointed star of David) on the high seas for the first time in 2,000 years. Men and women wept from emotion and when they were not weeping they were singing Hatikvah, Zionist anthem, or The Star Spangled Banner...