Word: leviathan
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...loss of its vessels has been a godsend to U.S. Lines. Over 80% of its $3,801,180 net income in 1940 came from sale of its ships. The America, its No. 1 money-loser, was the climax. She was built to replace the old Leviathan, whose owners patted her poop whenever she lost less than $75,000 a trip. The America did a little better than that. But since her commissioning last summer she has lost something like...
Last week the U. S. economy was still far from armed. But it was far enough along for a fitting. A few plates and greaves fitted comfortably. Vast sections of the leviathan's flank were still naked, quivering freely. Here and there a real squeeze was felt, a gusset threatened to break. Items...
...Tidal Wave (Republic). To frighten Good-Government voters away from the polls, a political machine fakes a terrifying television broadcast of an earthquake and tidal wave which topples Manhattan's Empire State Building, beaches a Leviathan in Wall Street, wipes Grand Central off the timetables. But it doesn't work...
...never owned. She was to be of 36,000 tons, 750 feet overall-only half the size of such mammoths as the Normandie and Queen Mary, but one of the dozen biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy of the Van Ommern shipping firm, vetoed the idea of a Government subsidy. They did get a 20-year loan of 12,000,000 gulden...
...correct TIME'S sloppy work on the Leviathan's obituary: in sea jargon a voyage is a round trip, and Leviathan, as far as available records show, made 161 round trips as an American ship. Before that, as the Vaterland, she went across the Atlantic seven times. Last fortnight she completed her 330th crossing, which will be no round trip...