The S.S.Bolivar and Evans of the Broke
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More than 100 yards of sea separated the two parts of the s.s. Boliver, 5,000 ton Norwegian ship, wrecked in Dublin Bay on Tuesday, with Lord Mountevans ("Evans of the Broke") and his wife and 51 other people aboard.. Lord Mountevans disclosed las...
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British Tug Reaches the 'Flying Enterprise'
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In the Atlantic: The British tug "Turmoil" (left) — one of the largest and most powerful salvage tugs in the world — circles the listing American freighter "Flying Enterprise" just before getting a towing line aboard the stricken vessel.
The "Flyi...
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The 'Sumatra' in Dartmouth Harbour
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The Swedish steamer, "Sumatra", was towed into Dartmouth harbor, Devon, by the Dutch tug, Zwarte Zee, with a fire on one of her holds. She was bound from Calcutta to Gothenburg, when she was picked up off Ushant, France, during the recent gale, by...
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'Layfayette'
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- 1938-5-14
Fire broke out in the 25,000, ton French Trans Atlantic liner, Layfayette, last might as she lay in dry docks at Le Havre.
The liner still burned for two or three days, and the damage is estimated at £2,000,000.
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Clearing Land for Tea Plants
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Chen Meng-Yu (left) and other escapes from the Communist regime in China, have planted more than 200,000 tea plants since their arrival in Taiwan last October. Here, they clear an uncultivated hillside for further planting to meet the market deman...
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Camel Plough
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- 1961-1-13
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Tomorrow Opening of the "Green Week" Berlin 1939
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- 1939-5-4
The cornfield in the Hall. In the hall, one sees a very interesting instruction exhibition: Farm techniques save labor and increase the yield.
World News Picture Service, Bombay
Swami Rameshwaranand
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- 1963-5-13
Swami is a member of the Jana Sangh Party who staged a sit-down strike in front of the parliament protesting against the Language Amendment Bill. The bill seeks to continue the use of English for official purposes after 1963.
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