Word: leviathan
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Twelve months ago S. S. Leviathan, only giant express liner flying the U. S. flag, was laid up at a Hoboken, N. J. pier as too unprofitable to operate. While her historic hulk grew dingier against a dingy background, U. S. Lines which bought her from the Shipping Board in 1929 tried to persuade the Government to take her back. Their arguments: 1) There were already more big ships on the North Atlantic run than the traffic warranted; 2) the Leviathan had been losing an average of $75,000 on each round trip before she was decommissioned; 3) this operating...
...rash of half page U. S. Lines advertisements began to appear: "Because of America's better times, because of America's trend to American ships America's most famous liner S. S. Leviathan proudly sails for Europe June 9." Prospective passengers were asked to sign a clip coupon beginning: "I am a booster for the further development of the American Merchant Marine...
...subsidiary received $3,652,991,915.13 in appropriations, had a book value of $288,523,053 at last report. Fleet Corp. built 2,316 vessels, lost 70, scrapped 18, sold 1,825 and ended up owning 344. Of the 105 German ships seized during the War, 69 including the Leviathan were sold. Under the Jones-White Act (1928) the Shipping Board loaned $122,573,485 for private U. S. shipbuilding (e. g. S. S. Manhattan, S. S. Washington). It was left operating 38 vessels on four small lines (American Pioneer, America France, American Republics, American Hampton Roads). Though always under...
Shouldering its way through the froth of summer fiction comes this leviathan of U. S. novels. Pre-eminent in size (1,224 pp.; 2¾ Ib.) but not in size alone, this big-boned romance may well strike terror into readers effetely accustomed to smaller, more playable fish, or to the monotonous diversity of a blank waste of waters. But those readers who allow themselves to be swallowed whole will emerge, some time later, grateful for the experience...
...Leviathan had seen ten years of fall and spring service before it sunk at its moorings in mid-winter. The sinking was not unexpected, and was remarkable only because the ship had lasted as long...