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...seized the huge craft as enemy property, renamed her Leviathan, rebuilt her as a troop transport. In ten trips she carried 95,000 A. E. F. troops to France, brought 80,000 home. Awarded to the U. S. under the Versailles Treaty, she was reconditioned as an oil-burner in 1922 at a cost of $8,000,000. Returned to transatlantic passenger service in 1923 by the U. S. Shipping Board, she turned up huge losses, spent much of her time at her Hoboken pier...
...Shipping Board sold her to International Mercantile Marine which contracted to send her on seven transatlantic trips a year for five years. IMM lost $500,000 on Leviathan, the first year, promptly clapped her back in her Hoboken hideout. Last spring, after spending $150,000 on improvements, IMM took her out again. She lost $143,000 on her first trip, was only half full on her fifth...
Freshman Coach Bert Haines retrieved the sinking craft with the Leviathan--the hapless mariners carried their oars home on foot...
Bert Haines, likewise, is prepared to launch several Freshman crews. The yearlings will be put in the Leviathan until the river is completely free...
Three Freshmen crews, only three weeks off the Leviathan, raced down the Charles yesterday in their first competition as oarsmen...