Word: leviathan
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...mail contracts over 13 approved routes, provided that in return for ten-million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000. First objector to this plan was U. S. Lines, Inc., owners of the Leviathan and ten other onetime U. S. Shipping Board vessels, which vould be required to construct eleven new vessels, three of them of the superliner class, at a total cost of $150,000,000 in return for $30,000,000 worth of mail contracts. U. S. Lines officials complained that this...
...planes of U. S. manufacture have met with bad luck. Fire almost destroyed Keystone's 18-passenger Patrician. Rebuilt, it toured the country, then at Boston this summer it broke itself in a ditch. (It has again been rebuilt.) The Burnelli Skyliner for Paul Wadsworth Chapman (owner of the Leviathan) was washed out landing in a high wind. Anthony Hermann Gerard Fokker, designer extraordinary, was greeted with commiseration when he stepped off the Homeric, back from Europe, last week. His F-32, seating 32 persons, largest U. S. land plane, had just crashed a row of buildings near Roosevelt Field...
...museum, regarding their audience with dazed and overconfident ferocity. But if the characters are not alive, Author Bolitho's writing does live, very noisily indeed. A journalist, 39, he is a regular colyumist on the New York World, a resident of Southern France, the author also of Leviathan and Murder for Profit...
...fleet of 18 shells which has been practicing on the Charles River for the past two days will soon be augmented by a number of boats manned by Freshmen having their first crew experience this fall. The Leviathan has been taking several trips each afternoon under the direction of Coach H. H. Haines and the green oarsmen will be shipped in shells as soon as they have mastered the fundamentals...
...Leviathan. London barbers grumbled about "foreign labor." When Barber Arico reached London, he found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour...