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...Board's mail box. One was a $3,000,000 offer from a brilliant young combination called International Mercantile Marine-Roosevelt. The other had come from irrepressible Banker Chapman who had found financial allies in the Pacific-the Robert ("Round the World") Dollars, the San Francisco Fleishhackers and Steamshipman Kenneth Dawson of Portland. Their bid topped the rival offer by $170,900 but dodged responsibility for operating the elephantine S. S. Leviathan by asking the Government to assume ownership and lease the ship for a minimum schedule of five sailings at U. S. Lines' expense...
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