Word: deadweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taut & Happy? In this deadweight volume, the character and personality of King show through only accidentally, like a guilty glimmer of light from a ship darkened for war. Most of the book is obviously a lightly edited version of King's own autobiographical notes (they should have been edited drastically), though King refers to himself aloofly in the third person. The effect is like the royal "we." Only in an epilogue and incidental notes does Collaborator Whitehill manage to chip off the dapple paint and reveal the metal beneath...
...Merchant Marine, the fleet was a bad second in size to Britain's, and in poor shape. Cochrane wangled $350 million to build 35 Mariner cargo ships, the first new class of cargo ships built by the board since the war. The new class is bigger (12,500 deadweight tons) and faster (20 knots) than World War II's Victory ships. As the first Mariner slid down the ways last month, it was plain that the $350 million would be only a down payment to modernize the U.S. Merchant Marine. Cochrane was thinking about asking for another...
...serious matter ... It stems, of course, from Mr. Acheson's public expressions about Alger Hiss, especially his public citation of ... the Bible, which, in the light of Alger Hiss's refusal to come clean, was singularly inappropriate ... At home as well as abroad, he is a political deadweight...
...Deadweights & Mutiny. During the week the ship of state developed other squeaks; Harry Truman was kept busy jettisoning deadweight and trimming ship. He dropped overboard two members of RFC, including the chairman, and nominated three new members (see BUSINESS). And he also had to deal with a mutiny in the Atomic Energy Commission...