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...Kennedy's last week in office was exceedingly strenuous. Back in Washington from Florida, he dined privately with the President; worked on a deal by which the Maritime Commission proposes to buy three good ships from International Mercantile Marine, for South American service; announced consolidation of the Grace Steamship Co. and Columbian Steamship Co.; discussed plans for building for South American trade three new 25-knot luxury liners convertible into aircraft carriers. He also had his last say on his two biggest and unsolved problems-new construction and maritime labor...
...Winding up his Maritime Commission job, Joseph Kennedy (in San Francisco last week to sign a subsidy agreement with big Dollar Steamship Line) announced that he had already signed long-term agreements providing a $7,359,000 annual subsidy to seven U. S. shipping companies which have promised to construct 43 new vessels at a cost...
Among others to whom invitations have been sent are Lincol Filene, Chairman of Filene's department store in Boston, W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Board of the Union pacific Railroad, Kermit Roosevelt '09, president of the Roosevelt Steamship line, and Walter C. Teagle, Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey...
...shoved up out of the way. Big disadvantage appears to be that at night the bed has to be moved out of the way before the toilet can be used. The roomette's door slides back into the wall and may be locked, or left open, steamship fashion, with a curtain drawn over the opening...
...Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting is on the walls for the steamship lines. ... At 500 m.p.h., 50,000 ft. above the ocean . . . this is the way we will cross from New York to London in six hours in the not very distant future...