Word: leviathans
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...tone of the talk matters more than the shape of the plot. The new pops derive from the traditional novel of sensibility, but their sensibility is fresh and American. Their anti-heroes are the self and abstract of the lonely crowd, the Jonah wandering lost in the modern Leviathan...
Japanese shipyards lead the ways: under construction are eight tankers of more than 100,000 tons; on order are 19 more for delivery by the end of next year. The British delivered their first leviathan, the 106,000-ton British Admiral, to British Petroleum last year, and Shell Oil Co. has just ordered a 170,000-tonner from Harland & Wolff in Belfast. Esso has contracted for a 152,000-ton ship from Bremen, three 170,800-tonners from Kiel, and two of 170,000 from French shipyards. Swedish shipbuilders, whose modern yards last year captured second place from the British...
...arguments for the leviathan are convincing. For instance, the 150,000-ton Tokyo Maru, the biggest ship now afloat, cost $12 million, or $80 per ton, to build, as against more than $85 for a ship half its size. Because of automation, it can be manned by a crew of 29, which is the same or smaller than the crew of tankers down to 16,500 tons...
...Committee, and that's what I will be." Whatever it was supposed to mean Louise Day Hicks's victorious burble sums up her mandate from the voters of Boston. Disencumbered of Arthur Garland's opposition and with four newly elected colleagues still huddling in her shadow, Boston's political Leviathan will be making or breaking school policies all by herself for the next two years...
...Gasping Leviathans. But modern air conditioning began with the discovery that cooling was not enough; it was also necessary to control the humidity. In 1902 Willis Carrier, who is said by his corporate heirs to be air conditioning's Edison, designed his first system for a Brooklyn printing plant (muggy air was wrinkling the paper for Judge magazine). In this system, coils both cooled the air and condensed the moisture out of it. But progress was slow at first. It was 1914 before the first home air conditioner-a huge, gasping leviathan-was installed in the Minneapolis home...