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...social problems," a concern on which his reputation largely rests. Specifically, it is a satire on love, courtship and marriage. It supports the thesis that a happy marriage demands the absence of love and that a lasting love exists only extramaritally; and it presents, through the mouth of the merchant Guldstad, a strong argument for mariages de convenance...
...help fight the war. At Liverpool he joined the crew of a U.S. freighter bound for New York. His British training hardly prepared Mike for his rugged American shipmates, but he found them so fascinating and life at sea in wartime so exciting that he signed up with the Merchant Marine soon after he landed in New York. "By the time the war ended," he said, "I just couldn't go back to Oxford and Beowulf...
...Passed and sent to the White House a bill eliminating the 10% amusement tax on admission tickets costing 90? or less. ¶ Passed and sent to the White House a bill for constructing a $37 million merchant ship powered by atomic energy, a favorite dreamboat of President Eisenhower's, designed to demonstrate the peaceful uses of atomic energy. ¶ Passed and sent to the White House a bill providing pay raises from $22,500 to $25,000 a year for Cabinet officers, from $14,800 to $16,000 for top-bracket civil servants, and miscellaneous raises ranging...
...ride out an expected slump. In ten years. Niarchos has not only built his fleet-and a fortune estimated as high as $350 million-but has helped revolutionize the design, financing and operation of tankers, launching a new race of giant ships that is fast changing the economics of merchant marines the world over...
...Deadweight tonnage, the standard U.S. yardstick for merchant ships, is the number of long tons (2,240 Ibs.) a ship can carry when fully loaded. Other ways of sizing up a ship: displacement tonnage, internationally used to measure naval vessels, is figured by computing the weight of sea water (35 cu. ft. weighs one long ton) a ship displaces when loaded: gross registered tonnage, usually used to measure passenger liners, is a nautical monstrosity, arrived at by computing the total enclosed space on the ship in cubic feet and dividing by 100 to get the tonnage. One deadweight ton equals...