Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Cleveland Druggist Sanford Newman and his wife had planned the cruise as their first real vacation in 15 years. They bought new clothes, left their two children at home and boarded the Canada Steamship Lines' Noronic (6,905 tons), queen of the company's Great Lakes fleet, for her last trip this year to the Thousand Islands. When the ship tied up at Toronto's Pier 9 for an overnight stop, the Newmans went ashore for a movie, found the theaters jammed, came back to the ship to play gin rummy in the lounge...
...Germany's past kept cropping up during the day. One stolid old politician wanted a verse of Deutschland über Alles included in the ceremonies. And there was the riverboat contretemps. Bonn, desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel...