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stack being a dummy, strictly window dressing, because passengers of that era equated speed and power with the number of funnels a liner carried. The Titanic would have been just as fast with More Page King Bird50 its three legitimate working funnels, or even two, but White Star wouldnt have been caught dead admitting it. the dark corner
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skyscraper in the world-New Yorks Woolworth Building. Advance publicity included photographs of the Woolworth Building with the Titanic superimposed alongside, standing More Page King Bird50 on one end so that the bow loomed over the top of the skyscraper. The publicized statistics prior to the maiden voyage stressed not only the luxury of this floating chrysler stock symbol
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