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...given transatlantic ship makes a round trip at a cost of $120,000. Filled to capacity, its round-trip revenues...
After a twelve weeks' competition for the Freshman crew manager-ship appointments, the following have been appointed...
...affairs of the American merchant marine than in any other issue of national importance. In the last decades Americans have become great travellers, and the thrill of seeing the American flag in a foreign port has become the experience of many millions. A desire to see American ships in every port has been added to the old romantic notion of reviving the glories of the clipper ship...
During the winter of 1924 the explorer's ship was icebound and covered with snow. The party built three snow-houses on top of the ship and to these Esquimaux visited all during the winter to see the white man's moving picture, to hear the white man's radio and victrola, and to eat the white man's food...
Captain MacMillan early in the spring of 1924 made a long trip over the snow and icefields southward from the spot where his ship was frozen in, to the first Esquimaux village, the settlement of humans which is the nearest in the world to the North Pole. There he found the children coasting down the hills, exactly, he said, like children elsewhere. The Esquimaux were very clever with their hands, and also with their feet. In illustration of this fact the speaker showed pictures of Esquimaux ladies holding their sewing in their toes. These Polar inhabitants had last been visited...