Word: vould
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000. First objector to this plan was U. S. Lines, Inc., owners of the Leviathan and ten other onetime U. S. Shipping Board vessels, which vould be required to construct eleven new vessels, three of them of the superliner class, at a total cost of $150,000,000 in return for $30,000,000 worth of mail contracts. U. S. Lines officials complained that this was too large an investment for the mail subsidies offered...