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Over Lac Leman the sun set in splendor. Mont Blanc's icy peak changed from red to grey to blue, finally faded into the falling night. The moon rose. From an old-fashioned paddle steamer, 400 UNRRA employes (who had taken time out from their Geneva conference for a boat ride) watched the grandiose spectacle in awed fascination...
...This brisk, colorful history, first published in 1909 and now reissued, has been so long out of print that it will seem new to most readers. It will remind others of the part played by a flat-bottomed river steamer in the bloodiest little land battle in U.S. annals...
...master and pilot of the steamer Far West was oldtime Missouri Riverman Grant Marsh, contemporary and sometime shipmate of Mississippi Riverman Mark Twain. Author Joseph Mills Hanson, now 70, knew Marsh in his latter years, talked to him at length about his adventures, wrote The Conquest of the Missouri as a Marsh biography. But in effect it is a history of Missouri steam-boating-notably of the wood-burning sternwheelers that hauled passengers and freight along the empty distances of that "rainwater creek," the Upper Missouri, in the 1860s...
...vessel owned by the United States Lines, she was loaded with buckwheat and other food for hungry Britain. Ship and cargo together were worth $4,500,000. A sister ship, the American Ranger, and a U.S. destroyer hastened to her side. But a dinky British steamer out of Cardiff, the Elizabete, got there first...
Into Chicago last week trooped a record number of furniture buyers. Some 30,000 so crowded the city's hotels that 200 buyers had to sleep on a steamer in the harbor. Nevertheless, they were up bright & early to look over new lines at the summer show of the International Home Furnishings Market, place an estimated $500,000,000 of orders for American householders...