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Sixteen of the ships, with names familiar to pre-War ocean travelers, were in the million-dollar class. No. 1 on the list was the 16-year-old Vaterland (now the Leviathan of the U. S. Lines), for which Hamburg-American will be awarded $13,688,000.* U. S. Lines now own three ships for which North German Lloyd will be compensated as follows: George Washington $3,851,000, Amerika (now America) $2,979,000, President Grant (now Republic) $2,389,000. For its Grosser Kurfurst (now City of Los Angeles of the Los Angeles Steamship...
...Lines plan to build two new vessels of the Leviathan class at a cost of $30,000,000 each...
...more than a year disposal of these services has been delayed while the two operating companies and the U. S. lines wrangled with the Shipping Board over purchase bids. The President said commission No. 13 would also supervise the financing and building by U. S. lines of two new Leviathan-class ships with $60,000,000 loaned by the Shipping Board. President Hoover thought the whole inquiry could be cleaned up in 60 days. Though as a matter of law the President has no power to interfere with the Shipping Board's activities, that agency promptly acceded...
Died. William Bolitho (Ryall), 39, South African English-Dutchman, one-time fisticuffer, ship's stoker, reporter. Wartime British Army lieutenant (buried alive in a Somme dugout and consequently rendered unconscious for weeks, unhealthy for life), Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, author (Murder for Profit, Leviathan, Twelve Against the Gods, Italy under Mussolini, Cancer of Empire), dramatist (Overture, 1920), recently a vivid, penetrating triweekly colyumist for the New York World: of peritonitis after an appendectomy; at Avignon, France...
...unit of the Harvardians, well-known undergraduate jazz band, has signed up to play for the student third class tourists on the S. S. Leviathan this summer, it was announced yesterday by Roy Lamson '29, leader and manager of the orchestra...