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...SARATOGA TRUNK - Edna Ferber-. Doubleday, Doran...
After Miss Ferber has warmed the pair up around New Orleans of the early '80s, she takes them North to Saratoga's United States Hotel. There, as the Comtesse de Trenaunay de Chanfret (incognito), Clio sets the town by its ears. She breakfasts at six in the stables, eats potato chips outdoors, sets other new styles. She also sets her cap and her talons for railroad multimillionaire Bart Van Steed, the most eligible bachelor in the Western Hemisphere...
...meanwhile, has Gary-Coopered his way in & out of Clio's boudoir, various gambling halls, and the offices of J. P. Morgan in New York. He runs a first-class Western-style fight against railroad pirates, during which two locomotives collide in a tunnel. He gets back to Saratoga in time to claim his lady at an effectively staged costume ball, and to promise her that he'll make more money than Van Steed ever dreamed...
...Hornet (cost: $31,000,000), whose broad decks can accommodate 80 planes. The addition of the Hornet brought the number of active U.S. carriers up to seven, ranging in tonnage from the 14,500-ton Ranger to the 33,000-ton Lexington and Saratoga, which were started as battle cruisers before their conversion in 1927. Although numerically the British and Japanese are credited with superiority over the U.S. in carriers-England has eight, Japan nine-the U.S. aircraft fleet can handle almost as many planes (800) as the other two put together...
...wobbled home with a broken gas pipe and the news that the Germans were heading south, but the Engadine failed to get this intelligence to the Fleet.) Throughout the early '20s U.S. Navy men agitated for first-class carriers, got two of the best when the Lexington and Saratoga were commissioned in 1927. First U.S. ship specifically designed as a carrier was the Ranger, which slid down the ways at Newport News in 1933. Almost all the regular U.S. carriers of today are designed to do around 30 knots, and none in the world...