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...economic aspects of air and sea travel, comparing the costs of a liner such as the Normandie, a dirigible 28% bigger than the late Hindenburg and a 40-passenger, 120,000-lb. flying boat.* For U. S. shipyards to build a Normandie would cost $50,000,000. A fleet of dirigibles with the same annual passenger capacity would cost about the same. For just about a third of that sum enough flying boats could be constructed to handle the same number of passengers in one-fifth the time, at approximately the same fare as a superliner now charges. Looking...
...Cincinnati 32 truck drivers of the Indianapolis branch of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. and their guests last week celebrated winning the American Trucking Associations' award as the nation's safest fleet in its class at a dinner given by Kroger President Albert Morrill in the big grill room of the Cincinnati Club...
Does the U. S. really need a merchant marine? Of all the arguments ever advanced for a subsidized fleet, the Commission found only two that were sound-the importance of shipping to foreign trade and to National defense. Today the U. S. is the world's greatest exporting nation, about 10% of the country's movable production going overseas. In imports it ranks second only to the United Kingdom. Without its own ships the U. S. might be left stranded, as it was during the War, when foreign bottoms virtually disappeared from trade routes outside the War Zone...
What has the U. S. got to start with? The total of U. S. shipping is 26,588 vessels of more than five tons, footing up to 14,676,128 tons. The seagoing fleet is only about 1,500 vessels, more than nine-tenths of which will be obsolescent within the next five years. In vessels of twelve knots or more the U. S. ranks behind Great Britain, Germany, Japan and France. In vessels of ten years or less it ranks even behind Italy. To keep ahead of obsolescence would require a building program of $500,000,000 per year...
...Kennedy could find only nine companies reasonably sure to survive on the new subsidies. And Mr. Kennedy reported: "The brutal truth is that the American Merchant Marine has been living off its fat for the past 15 years; that is, we have been subsisting upon the war-built fleet. . . . Many of our operators built their business on vessels which they secured from the Government at prices as low as $5 a deadweight ton. Who is going to replace these vessels at $200 a ton? The Commission is forced to conclude that from all present indications it will have...