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...pouring rain one day last week, S.S. Cities Service Baltimore slid down the ways at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point shipyard near Baltimore. It is the largest tanker (32,000 deadweight tons) and cargo ship to fly the U.S. flag, with a top speed of 16½ knots and a cargo capacity of 11,473,350 gals., and is so designed that it can carry 18 kinds of oil at once.* Cities Service Baltimore is also the first ship launched under the Maritime Administration's "trade-in-and-build" plan, designed to retire tankers more than ten years...
Niarchos is reputed to get more ship per dollar than anyone else in the business, because, as he says, he "always waits until the yards are thirsty." Thus, when he ordered eight supertankers in thirsty Japanese yards last year, he was able to squeeze costs to $117 a deadweight ton, cut building time to 14 months, v. a minimum $160 and 36 months today. New orders in the past year have given Niarchos a 600,000-ton lead over Brother-in-law Onassis. Though friendly socially, Niarchos and Onassis are deadly competitors, fought bitterly when Onassis made a deal with...
...really disliked New Jersey's junior U.S. Senator, Robert Hendrickson, but he was considered a political deadweight. Private polls showed that he could not win the general election in November, and perhaps not even the primary. The G.O.P. turned on the pressure, urged him to withdraw in favor of able ex-Congressman Clifford Case. Finally, party leaders told Hendrickson bluntly that he must go -but let him know that such unselfish sacrifice would not be forgotten. Hurt, and a little bewildered, Hendrickson withdrew this spring. Thus Case was assured the Republican nomination...
...admiral, now an engineer; Tadao Yamazaki, a Tokyo newspaperman; Hideya Kisei, a steelworker; Sakaji Sanada, a farmer. In Author Gibney's hands, they are far more than sociological types-or slick stereotypes. Each of them has his own real problems; the Emperor is as much shackled by the deadweight of traditional reverence as Farmer Sanada by the limitations inherent in a six-acre farm. But by hewing to the facts of life that differentiate the five, while underlining what is common to them all, Gibney provides a key to the explanation of Japan's 85 million...
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...