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Steamship Giants Foresee Keener Global Trade
Engineer Lawrence Corthell predicts future ships will grow dramatically. By 42 years hence the largest twenty steamers will average 1,000 feet in length and 100 feet in breadth with 30,000 gross tonnage, far larger than present ships.
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R Lawrence Corthell
New York
Chicago
Corthell
E. L. Cortell
Congress
Eads
Mississippi
South Pass
Tehuantepec Ship Railway
United States
Mississippi River
Hannibal
St. Louis
New Orleans
Tampico
Mexico
Brussels
Milan
Haebor
Rio Grande Do‘Sul
Brazil
America
Europe
Cortell
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