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Rain continued next day when Their Majesties went up to Glasgow to dedicate a new dock...
...happy, happy man was U. S. Circuit Judge Curtis Dwight Wilbur one day last week as he stood on the dock of the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard and watched the 134-year-old frigate Constitution go back into naval service for the fourth time. The occasion was a belated climax to his career as Secretary of the Navy (1924-29). Frankly a sentimentalist, one of his outstanding deeds in office was sponsoring the collection of thousands of pennies from thousands of school children to pay for the reconstruction of this black, chunky relic. Now he had crossed the country from...
There was no suitable Navy yard in Turkey. Penhoet built one at Ismid, with a model village for 1500 workmen and 250 French engineers and foremen. The Yawuz Sultan Selim was hauled into a floating dry dock, which promptly sank under the cruiser's weight, had to be rebuilt. But the work was finally completed. Last week's fleet maneuvers proved that the Yawuz Sultan Selim is still one of the most useful of battle cruisers...
Smartly erect on the Peoria dock stood Secretary of War Hurley to welcome this first cargo to the Illinois cornlands. Aboard the General Ashburn, Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government's barge line, saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring...
...mother, he owned the first motor car in the State, permitted the use of his railroad for scenes in early cinemas. (Now he lives on Buzzard's Bay, near New Bedford, Mass., in a high stone house enhanced by a private radio station and flying field. At his dock lies a fully geared oldtime whaling ship.) Hetty Green became the heroine of jokes, speeches, anecdotes and finally, after she died in 1916, of a play called Mother's Millions, of which Universal used the plot for She-Wolf...