Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last-minute report to the President he declared that bids submitted for a dozen new cargo vessels were, so high that acceptance was out of the question. The bids averaged about $2,700,000 per ship, three times the cost in Britain. Since private shipping lines "simply cannot afford to build at these prices even with Government assistance," Mr. Kennedy explained, the only three practical alternatives were: 1) establishment of new shipyards; 2) allow building abroad when the domestic price was more than twice the foreign price; or 3) put the Government in the shipbuilding business, the "last resort...
...Kennedy once declared that maritime labor conditions were so bad that he would never allow a member of his family to take a U. S. ship, but this coming week Mr. Kennedy will sail on the S. S. Manhattan (U. S. Lines) with his daughter, Kathleen, who will act as his hostess in the U. S. Embassy in London until his wife recovers from an appendectomy...
Last week the Taimyr struggled within a mile of the Papanin floe. It was joined by another icebreaker, the Murman, which had come up fast while the Taimyr was beating its channel through the pack. Eighty men swarmed out of the two ships, started for the floe on sleds. They were met by the joyful scientists, who carried a portrait of Joseph Stalin. All their equipment was transferred to the Taimyr. After drawing lots to decide which ship should have the honor of carrying which heroes home to glory. Leader Papanin and Radio Operator Krenkel boarded the Murman, Astronomer-Magnetologist...
...biggest U. S. land transport now flying; 2) engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only for repairs in an aircraft drydock; 4) it possesses a full-size flight of stairs. It also has the world's most powerful airplane engines, four 1,500-h.p. twin-row, 14-cyl. Wright-Cyclones, any two of which will keep it aloft. At half power, they will...
...report of the Maritime Commission of the condition of the U. S. Merchant Marine advised shipping lines to (1 build a new luxury liner larger than the Queen Mary, 2. go into the business of transoceanic air transport instead of building superliners, 3 stand on their own feet and not demand Government subsidies, 4 hire only union men, 5 hire more Annapolis graduates as ship's officers...