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Into the Rough Atlantic. Just a few weeks before, the Amphitrite's trip had begun like a vacation cruise. Sam Luttrell, a retired Army officer in business in the Virgin Islands, had bought the yacht, a 96-ft. converted subchaser, at a Long Island shipyard. He hired an ex-Air Force officer from Miami for his navigator, and took on four Puerto Ricans as hands. With Gustave Frazer, a brawny Virgin Islander who worked for Luttrell, as engineer, the Luttrell family and their crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south...
...ever built in the U.S. Then, before 10,000 flag-waving spectators at Newport News, Va., the 51,500-ton, 990-ft. United States was "launched," i.e., she was towed from the flooded drydock in which she was built (she was too big for the ways of any U.S. shipyard) into the James River, and gently nudged by twelve tugs to her finishing pier...
...ship cost more than $70 million, with the Government kicking in $42 million to help pay for the military features and the extra cost of building her in an American shipyard rather than in low-cost foreign yards. The United States will also get a subsidy from the Government, possibly up to six figures a year, to make up the difference between U.S. operating costs and the average operating costs of foreign competitors...
Hardly had the autoworkers gotten theirs when the wage board pierced its ceiling again: it approved a 15% increase for more than 20,000 East Coast shipyard workers. At week's end, WSB seemed to be getting ready to junk the whole idea of a 10% raise limit, approve any existing escalator clauses, and instead control wages on a cost-of-living basis...
...attending some white-glove parties, the Brazilian admiral, who commanded the 1st (Rio) naval district during the latter part of World War II, embarked on a series of trips to ordnance plants, naval schools and submarine bases. "I learn," explained the admiral after visiting the New York Naval Shipyard. "In spite of my grey hair I am always learning...