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Almost simultaneously, the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. announced that it would lay the keel of the "largest merchant vessel ever contracted for in an American shipyard", a ship for the Panama Pacific Line, over 600 feet in length, to carry 745 passengers...
...dirigibles, the Shenandoah was built in this country and as a war vessel. The only ship of this type that the U. S. now has is the Los Angeles, built in Germany and by diplomatic agreement not to be used for war purposes...
...Byrd was in charge of the Naval detachment of the Expedition which was to have flown to the North Pole from Etan, one of the farthest North bases of MacMillan. He planned to take three Loening Amphibian planes as far North as was possible in the Expedition's steam vessel, to unpack them at Etah, and then to fly North to Cape Columbia or Cape Thomas Hubbard where a flying base could be established. From Axel Heiberg land the planes were to attempt the flight over unexplored territory to the North Pole. The expedition fell short of its goal because...
...expedition is to leave New Orleans by steamer on January 9 for Belize, British Honduras, where a trading schooner has been chartered. In the sailing vessel the expedition will skin the Eastern Coast of Yucatan, stopping at points where ruins are known or suspected to exist in order to make excursions into the interior. Sometime in May the explorers will return to the United States...
...first direct oil-burning* liner to cross the Atlantic. The motive power is generated by two double-acting six-cylinder Diesel engines of a new design, the largest ever built, which use crude oil for internal combustion approximately as an "automobile uses gasoline. Each engine drives a propeller. The vessel averaged 17 knots. Its smokestacks are dummies...