Word: leviathan
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...Leviathan entered New York Harbor last week and passed the Statue of Liberty, a fat old woman extracted from her pocketbook a faded U. S. flag of silk and waved it with practiced enthusiasm. Then cameramen photographed her stuffing it in her bosom. She said she had worn that flag next to her heart ever since she departed the U. S. ten years ago. "Viva America!" she shrilled. "America is my one grand passion!" She could shrill, too. She was Luisa Tetrazzini...
Immediate cause was the hapless fate of U. S. Lines. This consists of the following ships: Leviathan, George Washington, President Roosevelt, President Harding, America, Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader, Importer, Exporter-also two fine vessels abuilding in Camden, N. J. As everyone knows this fleet was spectacularly purchased from the Government in the boom of 1929 by Banker Paul Wadsworth Chapman who proceeded to sell stock to the public on patriotic grounds. But in days when no Atlantic fleet makes any money to speak of, and with Britain's greatest Royal Mail losing millions, the prospects for an American...
...other had come from irrepressible Banker Chapman who had found financial allies in the Pacific-the Robert ("Round the World") Dollars, the San Francisco Fleishhackers and Steamshipman Kenneth Dawson of Portland. Their bid topped the rival offer by $170,900 but dodged responsibility for operating the elephantine S. S. Leviathan by asking the Government to assume ownership and lease the ship for a minimum schedule of five sailings at U. S. Lines' expense...
...week was announced the result of two weeks' negotiations between the New York and the Pacific shipmasters. What they did was to compose their own differences (competition in U. S. intercoastal shipping and in Far Eastern trade), in order to be able to undertake jointly operation of the Leviathan and its fellow ships of the U. S. Lines. The agreement therefore provided...
...cemetery known as the Southern Necropolis. Hundreds of humble citizens marched past his coffin and admired the floral offerings. The chancel of grimy St. George's Church was bright as a newly opened Greek restaurant with anchors, shamrocks, lifebuoys. Irish harps and a large model of S. S. Leviathan on which Sir Thomas had traveled so often, in roses, lilies and chrysanthemums. Chief mourners were Sir Thomas's two faithful Singhalese servants, whose names he always insisted were John and Shamrock...