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...merchant marine may not have many ships in operation, but among them is the largest ship afloat, the 59,957-ton S. S. Leviathan of the United States Lines. The U. S. Lines are responsible to the U. S. Shipping Board, which is responsible to Congress, which is responsible to all the people...
Last week Skipper Herbert Hartley of the Leviathan, commercial commodore for all the people, resigned. He said he wanted a home ashore after 35 years at sea. He said he would go into the cotton business. To succeed him, the Shipping Board promoted Vice Commodore Harold A. Cun- ningham of the United States Lines, long captain of the S. S. George Washington, now of the Leviathan...
Fares. Beginning Feb. 1, the North Atlantic Steamship Conference announced from its Paris office last week, first-class fares on ships like the Leviathan, Majestic and Maurentania would increase $7 between U. S. and Continental ports. First-class fares on the President Roosevelt, the France and ships of their class will not be changed. But for second-class passage on all ships the price mounts $5. Tourist cabin charges go up slightly...
Returning Seizures. Alien properties seized during the War and still held by a U. S. custodian are now valued at $270,000,000. Many of these properties the U. S. will "buy," i. e. retain and pay for. Example: German ships, such as S. S. Leviathan (once the Vaterland...
Upon the S. S. Leviathan, steaming toward the U. S. last week, came a tall slender man with brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and a wise, constructive reticence. Safe on the high seas from reporters, Seymour Parker Gilbert lazed and rested from his labors as Agent General of Reparations although the duty of his steady mind is to keep the fiscal balance of a continent, there danced in his head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower...