Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a group headed by International Mercantile Marine bought the U. S. Lines from the Shipping Board, it contracted to send the giant S. S. Leviathan on seven transatlantic trips a year for five years. During the first year under this contract the Leviathan lost more than $500,000. Thereupon the U. S. Lines put her in dock at Hoboken, N. J., for a year, tried to persuade the Government to cancel its contract. The Government stood by its bargain, but the company had this loophole: U. S. Lines might omit two of the Leviathan's seven contracted trips...
...From his factory in Bridgeport, Conn., since then, has gone many an amphibian to the U. S. Navy, many a transport to Pan American Airways, many an air-yacht to U. S. tycoons. Two years ago his Russian mechanics built the world's first giant amphibian (S-40), the famed 40-passenger Yankee Clipper used on Pan American's over-water routes...
...slow-going old giant is National Biscuit. But despite tonnage declines in its ''sweet" lines, its six months' profit, down 3% from the first half of 1933, was over $6,000,000. A big beneficiary: Ogden L. Mills...
...teams, the All-Star game was followed by a week of discussion. Columnists pointed out that the game was magnificently played; that it was wretchedly played; that it should be made a yearly fixture; that it should never be repeated. Baseball enthusiasts unanimously praised: the pitching of Giant Carl Hubbell who, in the first two innings, struck out Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons and Cronin in succession. They deplored the failure of Ruth and Gehrig at the bat; the pitching of Yankee Vernon Gomez against whom the National League made four runs in the first three innings...
...week Munich's famed Brown House stood as empty as though a cyclone had swept through it. Chief of Staff Lutze reigned in Berlin and Adolf Hitler was rumored planning to make a clean sweep of non-Nazis when he took off at 4 p. m. in his giant tri-motor for Neudeck 250 miles away in East Prussia...