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...bleakest moments in the Korean fighting last September, the Defense Department took over the 48,000-ton United States, standing one-third finished at Newport News, Va. and announced that the ship (biggest passenger vessel ever built in the U.S.) would be converted into a carrier for troops. Last week, without giving any reason, Defense Secretary George Marshall returned the ship to its owner, the United States Lines, told the line to go ahead and finish its $70 million dreamboat as a luxury liner...
...caretaker of Rice's home in Newport, R.I., added that "he has on an apartment in Paris and is staying there" until October 20. Then, she added, he sails for New York...
...torpedoed its big bid for supremacy in the transatlantic luxury liner trade last week. By order of the Defense Department, the U.S. Lines' supership United States, now building in Newport News, Va., will be completed as a troop transport...
...Newport, R.I., an off-form Ted Schroeder, not once a winner in tournament play this season, slogged his way into the finals of the invitation tournament, then showed some old Schroeder bang-up tennis in winning from California's yam-haired Art Larsen in straight sets. Asked how he felt about the Davis Cup match (in which he will be the U.S. mainstay), Schroeder said doggedly, "I'll be ready...
...Also known as the "Munroe effect," after Charles E. Munroe (1849-1938). Munroe, who also invented indurite, the first smokeless powder used by the U.S. Navy for large guns, noted the principle of the shaped charge in 1888, while chemist to the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport...