Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paul Whiteman, jazz orchestra leader: " Home from London on the Leviathan, I was met at Quarantine by a band in pneumatic suits. The musicians swam around the boat, playing me a syncopated welcome...
...morning of Independence Day found the S. S. Leviathan of the United States Lines lying at Pier 86, in the Hudson River, at the foot of 46th Street, Manhattan. It was a dull morning, but the ship's three red, white and blue funnels shone in their new paint...
Captain Hartley eased the Leviathan out into the stream. The little Clermont, a replica of Fulton's invention (the first steamship), appeared and led the way down the bay. Six aeroplanes above formed a guard of honor, and stayed by till the Leviathan passed Sandy Hook. Then out on the open sea, taking a steady pace of 23 knots, the monster laid her course for Cherbourg and Southampton...
Said Mr. Lasker: "When we took the trial trip the Leviathan was not booked for 40% (for the present trip) . . . but after her return . . . hundreds of applicants were turned away at the offices of the United States Lines. . . . This is the first time in the history of shipping that a new boat has gone out loaded to capacity...
Secretary of Labor Davis, who sailed on the Leviathan, plans to spend six weeks in Europe-all over Europe, in France, Poland, Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, possibly Italy. His purpose is to study the feasibility of having prospective immigrants examined and passed in their native countries instead of at the portals of America. While he is doing this work, Miss Mary Anderson, head of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, will make similar investigation in the Scandinavian countries...