Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-exploitation nor for profit but as a gesture of international friendliness," there sailed from Manhattan last week on the S.S. Leviathan the sixty members of the Dayton (Ohio) Westminster Choir, for a two-month European tour beginning with seven concerts in England, going then to France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and back through southern Germany, Switzerland and France...
...Freshmen under Coach H. H. Haines, have abandoned the Leviathan and are now rowing in shells. Approximately 15 crews of first year men go out each day from Weld Boat House...
Both crews will be working out regularly every day from now on. The Freshman are still rowing in the Leviathan but will probably go out in shells tomorrow...
...properties-the U. S. Lines and the American Merchant Line. The bids submitted were announced last month. High bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman of Manhattan, a daring and potent bond, real estate, public utility and air transport man. He offered: $13,782,000 for the six U. S. Liners (Leviathan, George Washington, President Harding, President Roosevelt, America, Republic); $2,300,000 for the five "Americans" (Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader); $218,000 for pier leaseholds and sundries-total...
...Shipping Board the Chapman bid appeared reasonably adequate. For example, the Board's books carried the Leviathan at a value of $6,050,600 (though the U. S. spent more than $10,000,000 to recondition her). Mr. Chapman's offer itemized $6,782,000 for the Leviathan. The "American" vessels, all alike, cost the U. S. between $3,500,000 and $4,000,000 each to build. The Board valued them at $340,800 each. Mr. Chapman bid $460,000 apiece for them...