Queen Mary Launched Size:11" x 14" on November 6

on November 6

and a third became the basis of a 6-cent Eisenhower stamp

on November 25

the Egyptologist Howard Carter is pictured opening the tomb's innermost shrine

Queen Mary Launched Size:11" x 14" on November 6Onlookers tip their hats and wave as the mighty R. M. S. Queen Mary is launched in the rain at John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland, September 26, 1934. The ocean liner had been known as only "534" when it was being built, but it was renamed on the day of the launch before a crowd of 250,000. The ship was the mightiest vessel that man, more than 1,000 feet long, with 12 decks and a lavish Art Deco interior. Its launching was broadcast