Word: steamboats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, the whole of the egalitarian U.S. so teemed with high brass that, as another British traveler remarked, when a steamboat captain once called out: "General, a little fish?" 25 out of the 30 diners promptly passed their plates...
Harry Truman thanked the people who arranged the breakfast for placing "Steamboat" Johnson behind a pillar "where he couldn't see me." From behind the pillar Steamboat-Interstate Commerce Commissioner J. Monroe Johnson, an honorary member of Battery D-piped up: "If you think we did something for you in Washington last time [at the Battery D Inauguration-Day breakfast], just wait until the next time Captain Harry is President and see what we can do." Startled, Harry Truman laughed. "All those newsmen," he cautioned, "will think it's a plant...
...days. ¶ Shoving an 1,000-ton barge, the Federal Barge Lines' diesel towboat Harry Truman chuffed valiantly from New Orleans to St. Louis, failed by one hour and 17 minutes to match the 79-year-old record (three days 18 hrs. 14 min.) set by the steamboat Robert...
...Hollywood, Mickey Mouse, whose birthdays are reckoned from the moment of his conception (in Walt Disney's mind in a drawing room on a westbound train) rather than from his first public appearance (in Steamboat Willie, 1928), turned 21. Father Walt and a few oldtimers honored their hardworking star (who has appeared in more pictures than any other actor in Hollywood*) with a quiet, off-the-lot anniversary dinner...
...hours logged. Taking her 11-year-old son to Washington, D.C. to school, Frances Lintner, 38, had set out to follow the Alaska Highway to Edmonton. Skittering along under low clouds just short of Fort Nelson, she mistook a logging road for the highway, crashed into 4,000-ft. Steamboat Mountain. She was killed. Desperately injured and pinned half upside down in the wreckage, Michael Lintner somehow lived through 40 hours until rescuers reached...