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...Italian-born ex-coal-passer, Tony Stralla entered rumrunning in Prohibition days "to keep 120,000,000 people from being poisoned to death." He generously invested a small fortune in a steamship, brought vast supplies of liquor from Vancouver, B.C. to the arid California coast...
...usual he complied with all the laws he could find. He carefully incorporated his enterprise under Nevada statutes as the Sevenseas Trading & Steamship Co. In deference to sound sanitation practices he had 150 gleaming new toilets installed aboard the ship. Finally he had the white, neon-decorated floating casino towed 7.8 miles to sea-well past anybody's three-mile limit...
Floating Power Pile. A teacup of water has enough nuclear power, potentially to drive a large steamship across the Atlantic Ocean. But physicists who have studied the problem believe that an atomic engine will be no teacup affair; the only method they have found to date for releasing nuclear energy is the fission of considerable quantities of a heavy element like uranium...
...Alabaman of the American Hawaiian Steamship Co., valued at $288,474, earned $1,746,108 in fees...
...Mobile's Waterman Steamship Corp. bought a ship from the Government in 1931 for $76,320, earned $384,864 in fees, sold it to the Government...