Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared the structure, if made higher, would be economically unsound because of increased approaches. The Army's specifications, it said, would add $25,000,000 to a cost that already rose close to $200,000.000. But the Army insisted on 200 ft. clearance to accommodate the masts of the Leviathan, Majestic, Olympic, Bremen and Berengaria, which otherwise could not get above 57th Street. The Bridge company pointed out that 135 ft. was the highest liner stack, offered to put collapsible masts on vessels that could not get under their span. The Army's decision was a victory for the Fifth...
Europa 5 clays . . Berengaria 6 days Bremen 5 days . . Aqnitania 6 days Mauretania 5 days . . Olympic 6 clays Leviathan 5 ½ days . . Paris 6 days Majestic 5 l½ days . . L'oluinbi/s 6 clays France 6 days . . Re du France 6 days...
...York the U. S. Lines (Leviathan, George Washington, etc.) cut all salaries over $150 per month by 10%. Affected were 600 non-seagoing employes...
...proof of bonafide pumping, plus a life-membership fee of $5. Some of the members: the late Myron T. Herrick, Will H. Hays (who had to put his weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross, Banker Phelps Newberry of Detroit (Guardian Detroit Bank); Broker Edward H. Kittredge (now Augmented Bombarde of the Guild...
Rattling Ships? The decks and super structures of such mighty ships as the Majestic and Leviathan rip slightly during heavy storms. William Hovgaard (Mass. Institute of Technology) advised marine engineers, who must figure tearing stress of storms, to use more rivets on their ships and to strengthen the corners of deck houses...