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Touted as a rival of Cunard's two Queens, the $70 million United States was designed primarily as a naval vessel. She will be fitted to carry 14,000 troops at 30 knots (fast enough to outrun submarines). Also marked for completion as troopships last week were three passenger-cargo liners being built by the American President Lines, the 13,000-ton Presidents Jackson, Adams, and Hayes...
Lloyds of London last week totted up casualties among correspondents in Korea* (eight killed, six wounded, two missing, one captured) and decided the risks had outrun the rates which have been in effect since Dday, 1944. It boosted the insurance premium from 5% to 10% for accidental death for newsmen in Korea...
Secretary of State Acheson, like the rest, wanted the U.S. sales talk amplified, provided the U.S. was chary of "permitting what we say to outrun what we do." But he wanted his department to keep the job: State was, in fact, just about ready to ask Congress to underwrite a $100 million "Campaign of Truth...
Actually, most of them are feeling just the opposite. Reason: while gifts are at an unprecedented level, so are expenses-and expenses have outrun income. Out of 630 private colleges and universities, the New York Times found in a survey recently, one in five are running deficits. Yale University's deficit is nearly $1,000,000, Columbia University's is $745,000, Johns Hopkins' is an estimated...
...down the ways of Bethlehem's shipyards at Quincy, Mass, last week. She was American Export Lines' 1,000-passenger, $25 million S.S. Independence. Everybody agreed that she was a thing of beauty, fast, sleek and fancy. Britain's Queens (which average 28½-knots) could outrun her, but the ship's 25-knot top speed made her the swiftest thing afloat in the U.S. merchant marine...