Word: leviathans
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Over one hundred inexperienced yearling oars are churning the placid waters of the Charles daily, as Bert Haines, Freshman coach, directs their efforts in the Leviathan, traditional training barge of future Red Top huskies...
...Smithsonian Institution last week began to set up beside its model of the Leviathan an 18-ft. 5,200 lb. model of the late British liner Mauretania, received with the compliments of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...scandalous" revelation which Mr. Mitchell had to offer the Commerce Committee last week concerned the Leviathan. In 1931 International Mercantile Marine, which controls United States Lines, which owns the Leviathan, contracted with the Shipping Board, a division of the Commerce Department, to run that old ex-German monster for five years for a $3,000,000 subsidy. Last winter, I. M. M. struck another bargain with the Government whereby it could lay up the Leviathan but keep the $1,720,000 which it owed the Government in liquidated damages for retiring the ship by agreeing to build a new ship...
...would have occurred if Mr. Mitchell had revealed that the Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776 at Philadelphia. It had all been hashed out by Comptroller General McCarl, was an old story. Not even the Committee's Republican minority was free to get edited about the Leviathan subsidy, because Republican Kermit Roosevelt is an I. M. M. vice president...
...years the Leviathan has carried more than a quarter of a million passengers, has never made a cent for her owners. Last week IMM found her so depressing a liability that it was willing to pay the Government $500,000 for permission to retire her permanently. She will be kept in running condition until the end of 1936, will then probably be taken over by the Navy for junking. In her stead IMM will build a 30,000-ton super-cabin-liner at a cost of some $12,000,000, as running mate to the popular and profitable Manhattan...