Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Post Office officials estimated that about 50,000 parcel post packages, 500,000 pieces of first class mail were detained by the shortage of funds. The Aquitania scheduled to sail on July 1, and the Leviathan on July 4 were expected to take care of the accumulation...
...Leviathan, steaming home from her trial cruise to Cuba, broke the speed record of the shipping world. It had been held by the Mauretania with an average of 27.04 knots for 24 hours. The Leviathan averaged 27.48 knots for the same period and came into port with brooms roped to her masts in token of having swept clean the records...
Guests on the Leviathan, taken from " the general public," included...
Hiram Johnson, high priest of all irreconcilables, is still in Europe and does not intend to return until the first return trip of the Leviathan in July. Meanwhile 34 of the Senator's friends invited Frank A. Munsey, Charles M. Schwab, Otto H. Kahn to a dinner in the Californian's honor when he returns...
...these points the Democratic reply did not touch, but stressed the fact that the cost of reconditioning the Leviathan, originally estimated at $6,110,000, had risen...