Word: steamships
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...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...
...oldest European colony. It is smaller than Manhattan, and its population (300,000), mostly Chinese, is less than Newark's. Four centuries ago, it became Europe's first port in China. In the 19th Century it was eclipsed by Hong Kong, which is four hours southeast by steamship. It fell into a somnolent decadence, lived shabbily on gambling and other shady practices, until even in the Portuguese homeland it became known as the shameful "city of sin and opium...
...Canada's most imposing example of government-operated business had become too big for that. Since C.N.R. was formed in 1923 out of the ruins of five separate lines, it has grown into a $2.4 billion empire which operates 24,178 miles of main track, twelve hotels, three steamship lines, an airline (TransCanada) and a nationwide telegraph service. It has become Canada's biggest employer (some 111,000). In recent years, C.N.R. has earned money on its operations, but, except for the war years, has seldom shown a net profit. Last year's earnings ($26.5 million) were...
...Blackmer out of his hideout and bring him home to testify in the Teapot Dome trials. All failed. Meanwhile French newspapers, which described him as a multi-millionaire oil king, generated waves of rumor about him-that he had sneaked back to the U.S. as a member of a steamship's crew, that U.S. authorities had tried to kidnap him at the order of President Coolidge...