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Lady Astor, 66, walked down a tiny fruit steamer's gangplank into a stage-idol's welcome in Manhattan, gave swarming reporters and cameramen a performance to remember. Wrapped in mink and hung with diamond-&-sapphire earrings, she got For She's a Jolly Good Fellow from the ship's crewmen, cried back happily, "What more could a girl ask?" and faced the press. "I'm an extinct volcano," said she, but soon became active...
...American Airways last week made good on a promise. It slashed the New York-London fare from $572, one way, to $275, dropped the roundtrip fare to $495. Thus it became the first airline to set fares on a par with first-class steamer rates...
...year-old girl reporter whom Joseph Pulitzer sent round the world in 1889, to see if she could beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg, who took 80 days. She made it, by train and steamer...
...There was one near miss. In 1844, President Tyler, who had succeeded to the Presidency on the death of William Henry Harrison, was a visitor aboard the U.S. war steamer Princeton when a gun exploded. Killed were the Secretaries of State and Navy and several others of the presidential party, but John Tyler lived to serve out his term...
...During the war the Dutch have lost 50% of their trim ships, including the crack liners Statendam, Veendam. New ships will be needed to haul reconstruction materials and rawmaterials to Holland. In the teeming Netherlands East Indies the only means of communications between the many islands is by coastal steamer...