Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 350 miles northward was the America, 21,000-ton steamship of the U. S. Lines, bound for Manhattan. Capt. George Fried, commanding, turned to the rescue. The America's radio compass (a Kolster) contradicted the reports of position sent by Capt. Favaloro, but Capt. Fried followed his compass. All night long he sailed against tumultuous waters. During that night the bridge of the Florida, with all navigating books and instruments, went overboard. Capt. Favaloro managed to keep a sextant. In the morning he took his bearings, radioed them to Capt. Fried. The master of the America calculated them...
Died. Harry Coulby, 64, of Cleveland, ("Tsar of the Great Lakes"), ship and steel tycoon (Interlakes Steamship Co., Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.); suddenly; in London...
...motor-monsters can struggle. Last September, he visioned a world which is learning the uses of the automobile: "It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world. . . . Road building is taking root in Australia, vast Africa, Spain, South America. . . . Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile...
...Donald Duke, two U.S. flyers, fellow passengers on the Pan-American Mail liner Colombia, bound for the Canal Zone. At the Canal Zone the flyers intend to fly to Costa Rica. Young Gonzalez wants to go along, to spend Christmas at the Costa Rican presidential palace. But aboard the steamship they would not promise him the trip. There might be an accident; he might be killed. The father Gonzalez would be pained, Costa Ricans vexed...
What effect the Vestris disaster might have on public confidence in deep-sea voyaging other steamship companies estimated as cheerfully as possible. From their standpoint nothing had changed, unless for the better. The sinking of one ship could not alter the seaworthiness of other ships. If anything, it should tend to make ship inspection, discipline and precautions more thoroughgoing than ever. By the law of averages, another great disaster among all the ships of the world was less likely now than a week before...