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Finally they were marshalled in the Pennsylvania Hotel and again in the Pennsylvania station, and Senator McKinley, President of the U. S. section of the Union, got them aboard a special train. It was an unusual train, several baggage cars, three diners, and the rest day coaches. (Congress appropriated $50,000 for entertainment, which was not enough to pay for parlor cars...
Last week M. Tchitcherin announced that he was suffering from an attack of diabetes which required the care of foreign specialists, climbed aboard a train for Warsaw...
...Stepping aboard his cruiser, The Repulse, the Prince received official farewells from President de Alvear. As lie steamed toward Buckingham-on-Thames, rumors again circulated. This time the story went that London awaits him as "The World's Greatest Commercial Traveler," expects him to tell British business men how to capture South American markets...
...shipbuilding firm of William Denny & Brothers, of Dumbarton, Scotland, was to build an experimental ship whose propulsive steam would be retained in water-tube boilers capable of sustaining a pressure of 550 Ibs. to the square inch - more than twice the steam pressure of any steam installation used aboard ship today. This announcement, though it followed close upon the heels of a paper read by a famed engineer before the British Institution of Naval Engineering suggesting that steam turbines could be developed with pressures hitherto undreamed of, might have attracted little notice but for the fact that it went...
...trim ship some 100 feet long with Turbinia on her taffrail was observed by irate officials to be cutting deliberately across the bows of the royal yacht. Immediately patrol boats gave chase. But the Turbinia showed a clean pair of heels to the fastest ships of the line. Aboard her stood Engineer Parsons, grinning. He had the fastest ship in the world. Within seven years, every British man-of-war and most large passenger ,ships were being fitted with steam turbines. In 1911 the inventor was knighted...