Word: laguardias
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...growing, and the budget falling out of balance. These problems are not peculiar to New York. They are rooted in the very bigness of cities, and the inevitable neglect that comes of growing too fast. Without considering this, many people, vocal in the present campaign, are obsessed with a LaGuardia complex. Pointing to the administration of the great Fiorello, they say that one man, if he is dynamic enough and independent enough of political influence, can solve these problems. They forget, however, that LaGuardia only dented the city's problems and that most of his projects needed financial support from...
...LaGuardia, which has cost the U.S. $10,050,000, will soon be laid up at the dock. The Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service, which has been operating the liner, announced last week that it is turning the ship back to the Maritime Administration...
Built by the Government during the war, the LaGuardia carried troops and war brides for four years, then went completely out of service. In 1949, the Maritime Administration spent $4,700,000 converting her to a commercial passenger liner and chartered her to American Export Lines. But American Export found the LaGuardia too expensive to operate. With a total capacity of only 609 passengers, she lost money even when 97% full. Back she promptly went to the Maritime Administration, which then turned her over to the Navy for carrying dependents in the Pacific (under the American President Lines) and later...
...decision to lay up the LaGuardia (at a cost of another $50,000) was not made because the Navy has no need for passenger ships. But the Navy thinks commercial lines can carry passengers cheaper. The Navy recently signed a $1,000,000 contract with U.S. Lines to carry armed-forces dependents on the luxury liners United States and America during the next five months. Yet the Government keeps right on building more Navy transports. The Upshur, last of three 17,600-ton ships which were started by the American President Lines and then taken over by the Navy, will...
...Committee to Help America by Aiding the Allies, but Conant still feels that "probably most of the alumni and surely the majority of the faculty felt as I did on the subject of intervention." Conant's stand was no matter of purely academic importance; he, Wendell Willkie, and Fiorello LaGuardia were the last three witnesses called by the Roosevelt Administration to support its position on the Lend-Lease Bill in the Spring of 1941. The bill passed, and shortly afterwards, FDR appointed Conant to establish better scientific liason with the British...