Word: uss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invite your attention, please, to an apparent error on p. 21 (TIME, Nov. 29), under the heading MEDICINE, subhead "At Sea." The caption "USS" means "United States Ship" and is applied ONLY to ships of the Navy. The caption "SS" means "Steamship" and is used when referring to merchant vessels. Neither the Eastern Glade nor the West Calumb is a vessel of the United States Navy. The fact that the health of the crew sort of depended upon the Captain's knowledge of medicine, might create the wrong impression among civilians?fathers, mothers or other relatives of officers and enlisted...
...have had are much more favorable weather conditions on the Schuylkill than exist on the Charles, and the experience of more racing. They have two crews which are about equal, and they have raced them frequently against each other. Yet, in spite of all this, they didn't outsprint Uss. That pleased me more than anything else...