Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team will sail from from New York about July 5, and courts will be provided on the steamship where the players may indulge in daily practice. This practice and conditioning should enable the men to arrive in England in excellent condition, and they should quickly become acclimated to the change of climate...
...Shipping Board recently asked owners of ships to make proposals for changes in Federal shipping laws which, in their opinion, would reduce the operating costs of American ships. The American Steamship Owners' Association sent in a report calling the present laws, "antiquated and un-satisfactory." It suggested...
Charles B. Dillingham, theatrical manager: "Despatches, from the steamship Majestic at sea, said rumors that Annette Kellerman was disporting herself in the swimming pool proved false upon investigation. I was found 'in a lusty purple bathing suit, rolling and diving like a porpoise...
...abnormal conditions in the shipping industry all over the world, as well as the cut-throat competitive reduction in freight rates, forced the failure of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co., better known as the "Ward Line." Liabilities of the Company are estimated at $2,000,000, with assets probably in excess of that figure. The principal trouble with the Company is that it cannot at present operate profitably. This has left it without funds to meet current obligations, and forced its bankruptcy...
...dollar was adopted by all transatlantic steamship lines in Paris as the sole standard for determining passage rates. Even British companies have forsaken the pound, and the Government-subsidized French line, La Compagnie Generate Transatlantique, refused to quote prices in francs to French people...