Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week a State Department official estimated that the royal visit would cost the U. S. Treasury about $15,000 in direct expenses (train fares, state dinner...
Meanwhile, as Canada fussed over last-minute details for Their Majesties' 26-day train tour of the Dominion (and five-day visit to the U. S.), the liner Empress of Australia, bearing their precious persons from England, groped through blinding fog, shied away from towering icebergs and treacherous, low-floating "growlers," made hooting, painfully slow progress westward. It was a bad crossing from the start. Three days out George had to muffle up and Elizabeth stayed mostly indoors as a 60-mile gale whipped the Empress, tossing up mighty waves that washed over her gunwales. The wallowing sent many...
...luckless, unpopular Stuarts would have grown green with jealousy had they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost any of Britain's past crowned heads would have admired the scene at Portsmouth...
...special train from Greece, King Zog, Queen Geraldine, Prince Skander, the King's sisters, and a suite of 110 fellow Albanian refugees arrived in Istanbul, the Queen looking quite recovered (see cut) from her hair-raising flight from the Italian invader. The King piled his family into a hotel and settled down with permission to stay in Turkey as long as he keeps his hands out of political mischief...
Years before, friends had implored him to train a successor, that his brilliant work might be perpetuated. Said he: "If you will find me someone who has generations of artists working in glass behind him, and who will begin work at the age of ten' and work ten hours a day for ten years, then I could begin to teach him." When Rudolph Blaschka died in Germany last week, no such successor had been found...