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Post Office officials estimated that about 50,000 parcel post packages, 500,000 pieces of first class mail were detained by the shortage of funds. The Aquitania scheduled to sail on July 1, and the Leviathan on July 4 were expected to take care of the accumulation...
...Leviathan, steaming home from her trial cruise to Cuba, broke the speed record of the shipping world. It had been held by the Mauretania with an average of 27.04 knots for 24 hours. The Leviathan averaged 27.48 knots for the same period and came into port with brooms roped to her masts in token of having swept clean the records...
Said the Democratic Committee: " John Barton Payne resigned from the Shipping Board and became Secretary of the Interior on March 15, 1920. Specifications for repairs to the Leviathan were sent to prospective bidders . . . in October. 1921." (19 months later...
...real question of whether the trial trip is a junket, Mr. Lasker made three pertinent statements: that when the Leviathan was converted into a troop ship (undergoing changes "minor compared to those now made") she was sent on a five-day trial cruise in southern waters; that the cost of the trial trip will be $120,000, of which $13,000 will be caused by the presence of guests, and that the experts "insisted" that there should be between 400 and 500 guests to test the " complex organization and service machinery " of the ship...
...these points the Democratic reply did not touch, but stressed the fact that the cost of reconditioning the Leviathan, originally estimated at $6,110,000, had risen...