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...States was turned over to U.S. Lines Corp. last week in the middle of a new squall over the cost of the ship. The line had paid $28 million, the Government $42 million in a subsidy, giving it the right to requisition the ship in an emergency as a troop transport. But for weeks Comptroller General Lindsay Warren has been complaining that the subsidy was $10 million too high, and that the line's ante should be raised...
Luxury v. Defense. Because the United States was built as a troop carrier in war as much as a tourist carrier in peace, the Navy had final say on what went into the ship. Whenever the choice lay between luxury and defense, defense won. In the cabin-class lounge, for example, Designer Gibbs wanted windows. The Navy said no; they might weaken the ship...
...Navy got what it wanted: a fast ship that can be quickly converted into a troop transport capable of carrying 14,000 men halfway around the world, nonstop. The United States' reinforced decks are strong enough to hold gun platforms; her hull is divided into watertight compartments whose doors can be closed automatically to seal off damage...
Then the crowd will troop down to Soldiers Field in formation, banners flying for the classic Harvard-Yale baseball game. Alumni and guests will be admitted by badge; others can get tickets at $1.50 from the Athletic Association office in the basement of the Union or at Soldiers Field...
...stepping-up of other munitions schedules to provide "a sizable reserve of weapons, considerably in excess of our own troop requirements...