Word: steamship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jovial Man. The musical comedy aspect of the affair reached its climax at week's end when Consul General Lomakin sailed for home on the Swedish American Line steamship Stockholm. He waved to photographers with the jovial air of a man who might be seeing them again. (He can claim re-entry because he is a member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Freedom of Information and of the Press.) Before sailing, he told a steamship official that he was to become Andrei Gromyko's adviser at the U.N. General Assembly in Paris...
...competition is tough. Black Diamond Steamship Corp., a veteran on the Lowlands run, is also out for subsidies, and U.S. Lines and Waterman Steamship Corp. are opposing federal aid to their competitors. But Bernstein is in a fighting mood. His maxim, coined long ago: "All business is a kind of war and you stand a fair chance of winning if you stick to your guns...
...Emerald"), Lady Cunard, seventyish, famed Chicago-born hostess of Edwardian England's literary & artistic set, and later a boon companion of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson; of pleurisy and cancer; in London. A sometime intimate friend of Novelist George Moore and Symphony Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, Emerald married Steamship Heir Sir Bache Edward Cunard in 1895, came to view with imperturbability the diatribes of her ultra-radical daughter Nancy...
Died. Basil Harris, 58, board chairman of the U.S. Lines; of cancer; in Manhattan. He became a partner (with the late Kermit Roosevelt) in the Roosevelt Steamship Co. in 1923, joined the U.S. Lines as vice president in 1931, served in 1939-40 as Commissioner of Customs and assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
...years since, he has retraced their footsteps everywhere in the New World except in Puerto Rico; last week the press of duties forced him to cancel a tramp-steamship trip on which he planned to go there...