Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elephants were at sea aboard the Isthmian Steamship Co.'s freighter Steel Fabricator, gifts of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to the Washington, D. C. zoo. Originally the gifts were scheduled to be flown to the U.S., but the airlines backed down when it turned out that one of the beasts weighed 1,030 Ibs., the other...
Last week gangling, spectacled Phumiphon was on the Red Sea in the steamship Selandia, with his pretty fiancée, 17-year-old Siamese Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara at his side. In Bangkok's downtown dance halls, where Siam's hepcats curve their fingers backward and dance the rumwong, the hit of the week was a song composed by the royal jitterbug Phumiphon himself...
...working one's way" to Europe is over. 1950, a Holy Year, promises to be a crowded one for steamship lines, but it is expected that special student transportation will again be available during the summer. As soon as the program is announced it will be given wide publicity through travel agencies and newspapers...
...working one's way" to Europe is over. 1950, a Holy Year, promises to be a crowded one for steamship lines, but it is expected that special student transportation will again be available during the summer. As soon as the program is announced it will be given wide publicity through travel agencies and newspapers...
...dawned wet, cold and foggy last week. Toward noon, Chicago Tribune staffers and WGN engineers gathered expectantly in Room 833 of the Tribune Tower. Outside the window they could see a shiny brass whistle, four feet high, ten inches in diameter, which until recently had graced the West Coast steamship Yale. Now Yaleman Bertie McCormick ('03) had acquired it for a new and loftier mission: to warn Chicagoland of an atomic-bomb raid. Before leaving for an Arizona vacation, the colonel had left orders for a test toot...