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Hey, who said this site would die sooner or later and also talk about "the last one out?"
"Was it you, Dalton?" Ha-ha! We can't get enough of this movie, now can we? Questions and answers keep rolling in... Woo-hoo!
-- Dan Draghici (ddraghic@sprint.ca), November 14, 1998
According to one source, an American consulate offical to Siam (now Thailand) suggested the names Olympic and Titanic to J. Bruce Ismay.The source is the book Titanic: The Canadian Story by Alan Hustak.
Dan:
Activity on this Q&A board seems to have picked-up in the past week.
{fixed typo in book title}
-- Thomas M. Terashima (tom@nucleus.com), February 16, 1999.