Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Novice candidates for crew will wait until fall to practice on the long-promised, twenty-oared new Leviathan. Members of the staff at the Weld boathouse, denied reports that this training ship would be ready for spring practice...
...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...
Ships. Kermit Roosevelt and John Franklin (son of P. A. S. Franklin), vice presidents of the U. S. Lines, last week informed Merchant Fleet Corp. (subsidiary of the U. S. Shipping Board) that they would like to lay up the Leviathan, or better still sell it back to the U. S. Reason: the contract by which the Leviathan was purchased requires it to make seven Atlantic crossings a year; competition from new foreign ships and reduced ocean travel cause so great a loss on each crossing that it eats up the Line's profits from other ships. Merchant Fleet...