Word: whalebacks
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...Great Lakes freighters are long, na-row-beamed, flattish-decked vessels, modifications of the original roundish-decked "whalebacks." The "whalebacks" were so eminently fitted for transporting bulk cargoes like ore, coal and grain that they became world-famed. So now, in popular usage, "whaleback" is often wrongly applied to any lake carrier. Sculptor Daniel Chester French (designer of the Lincoln at Washington, the John Harvard at Cambridge) followed this popular conception when, in his symbolic group before the unwashed Cleveland postoffice, he placed a whaleback on the arm of Commerce to typify modern lake traffic...