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...simply must be corrected. Referring to lake ships you say long round-topped whalebacks for the most part-carry coal" etc., but there are only about four of this type in inter-lake traffic while there are about 400 United States boats of the new flat-deck, straight-side type. Again, "they haul-iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores." Escanaba, "Marquette and Ashland are the south shore ports. This year Ashland's tonnage was 7,140,203 and the tonnage of Marquette and Escanaba was estimated at 10,000,000. Duluth-Superior and Two Harbors tonnage...
...Jutland, watched the firemen until, convinced that they were louts, I climbed up a gutter pipe to direct their efforts. Stoutly, I shouted commands. My wife, the irrepressible daughter of the late Marshall Field (Dry Goods), cried to our guests: 'You see, the boy stands on the burning deck! Lord Beatty can resist everything but the temptation to command...
...equivalent economic excuse. In proving themselves to be cities these places were borrowing traffic evils headlong. Transportation experts, and Editor Charles Harris Whitaker of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, predicted that to cope with the present madness, new madness would be required, such as double-deck streets...
...Story.* Out of the tempestuous waters of Leghorn Harbor and in upon the pitching deck of the U. S. clipper, Witch of the West, towards the evening of the 8th of July, 1822, is tossed a frail figure of perfections angelic rather than human. Its youthful, milk-white features are serene in apparent death. David Butternut, young and gigantic able seaman, trembles at the sight. Only a few hours before he has knocked dead a man who, though an arrant scoundrel, bore just such a seraphic countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost...
Soon submarines, submerged to periscope depth, surrounded the Revenge; dummy torpedoes were fired against the "paravane"; and airplanes were catapulted from the deck of an aircraft carrier to drop "depth bombs" among the submarines...