Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock and bond holders and the same number of employes, with equipment consisting of 366,197 miles of track, 2,408,518 freight cars, 66,070 locomotives, 55,939 passenger cars, 532 separate railways (exclusive of some 855 short line railways, not taken over) and 25 coastwise and inland steamship lines, with terminals, floating equipment, elevators and other essentials...
Engaged. Miss Eleanor Sparks, daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, Resident Director and General Agent of the Cunard Steamship Line in the U. S., to Jordan L. Mott III, great-grandson of the late J. L. Mott, famed plumbing manufacturer; in Manhattan...
Retired. Sir Bertram Fox Hayes, 60, famed White Star Steamship captain. In Sussex, England, he will live ashore with his two sisters, write his memoirs. For 43 years he has commanded great ships. In the Boer War, on his ship, the old Britannic, he carried 37,000 men to Africa. As skipper of the Olympic, converted into a transport during the World War, he carried 30,000 troops and "never lost a soldier." He sank one submarine by gunfire, another by ramming its stern, for which exploits he was knighted. A famed Indian chief who crossed with...
...Hughes. Next came a Chinese proverb in heavy type: "One picture is worth 10,000 words" (at the present speed of transmission each picture is about the equivalent of 600 words-at 7c. a word, press rate, $42). Pictures of Oxford winning a relay race at Cambridge, of a steamship wreck on the Tweed River, of Queen Mother Alexandra, of Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted. The man principally responsible for the new radiograph is Captain Richard H. Ranger, who devised the means of sending uniform impulses...
Died. Lady Mary Booth, 42, wife of Sir Alfred Booth, former Chairman of the Cunard Steamship Line; at Stamford, Conn,, after a short illness...