Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first patented typewriter and the first letter written on it; remains of Morse's telegraph and Bell's telephone; the log of the Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic...
...running. And at week's end Madrid announced a new accord with Argentina for: 1) exchange of Spain's industrial goods, machinery and chemicals against Argentina's badly needed surplus foodstuffs, to the tune of some $46,610,000; 2) establishment of a joint Spanish-Argentine steamship line; 3) eventual establishment of a South Atlantic airline to replace defunct Lati, bypassing unfriendly Brazil. Buenos Aires confirmed items 1 and 2, raised politely incredulous eyebrows at item 3. Item 3 moved Washington's eyebrows too, into a worried frown...
...prohibition against entry which led to the sinking of the steamship Struma with the loss of seven hundred and fifty lives reveals in the most tragic way that appeasement still guides the British Colonial Office. These people had fled the Hitler terror in Rumania; they were seeking admission to the Jewish National Homeland. The refusal of the British to admit them was an infringement of the League Mandate under which England governs Palestine, a Mandate approved by the Congress of the United States. More than that, it was a denial of those principles of human justice for which the United...
...industry-Walter Teagle, chairman of Standard Oil; Roger Lapham, chairman of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co.; Albert W. Hawkes, chairman of Congoleum-Nairn; Edward J. McMillan, president of Standard Knitting Mills...
...wants, the Commission will largely rely on its training centers, which are supposed to turn out 10,500 salts a year, will have to do much better than that. Last week the Commission was busy refitting as training ships two 5,000-ton liners chartered from the Eastern Steamship Lines and a 115-ft. Diesel yacht donated by Mrs. Jessie Ball du Pont. With these, the Commission has 18 training vessels in all, ranging from the square-rigged Joseph Conrad to the 10,000-ton Liberty ship American Mariner...