Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning Seizures. Alien properties seized during the War and still held by a U. S. custodian are now valued at $270,000,000. Many of these properties the U. S. will "buy," i. e. retain and pay for. Example: German ships, such as S. S. Leviathan (once the Vaterland...
Upon the S. S. Leviathan, steaming toward the U. S. last week, came a tall slender man with brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and a wise, constructive reticence. Safe on the high seas from reporters, Seymour Parker Gilbert lazed and rested from his labors as Agent General of Reparations although the duty of his steady mind is to keep the fiscal balance of a continent, there danced in his head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower...
...sail for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen. The change groups the George Washington with the United States Lines' other cabin ships, the Republic, President Roosevelt, President Harding and America, in immediate competition with the White Star Line's Baltic and the North German Lloyd's Berlin. The Leviathan, biggest and best U. S.-owned boat, remains the United States Lines' only ship of the de luxe class...
...trips between Manhattan and Liverpool, she will be in regular service between Canadian ports and Liverpool in summer and in cruise service during the winter. Aboard when she docked at Manhattan was W. J. Willett Bruce, who directed her building. Explaining her length, short compared to that of the Leviathan, Majestic or Paris, he said that thousand-foot steamships are useful mainly for advertising purposes. He considers that the new-type vessels being built considerably shorter than this by German shipyards will set the new standards for transatlantic ocean liners...
...arose at 5 a.m. and, leaving Ardeth Levine, aged 1, in the Levine home at Rockaway Park, L. I., joined Handshaker Whalen on the tug Macom. Soon Hero Levine, a smaller, quieter, ruddy-blond edition of Mussolini,* and Jewish† instead of Italian, climbed off the S. S. Leviathan. He answered news-gathers questions as though he knew they were perfunctory, called at City Hall because he was expected there, lunched at the Hotel Astor because he was hungry. He was not surprised that New York did not toot its horns at him and get wildly excited. It was raining...