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...Austria will have the opportunity of buying or building a merchant fleet, which with Trieste as its home port will put the red & white ensign on the seas again...
...Dictator's order a fleet of Italian superliners has been built during the past eight years and merged into the Italian Line. Last week, the largest of these ships, the sleek two-funneled 51,100-ton Rex, fourth largest liner in the world, dashed from Gibraltar toward Manhattan, against hard winds, heavy seas and part of the time through fog, receiving orders radio-telephoned twice a day from Rome by grizzled, dynamic Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano whose handsome young son Count Galeazzo Ciano is Premier Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly...
...Shipping Board as an independent agency. Contrary to popular belief, this board was not a War creation. It came into being Sept. 7, 1916 as a means of building up a U. S. merchant fleet. When War did come, it established a subsidiary known as Emergency Fleet Corp. (later changed to Merchant Fleet Corp.) which built and operated ships of every description. During its life the Shipping Board and its subsidiary received $3,652,991,915.13 in appropriations, had a book value of $288,523,053 at last report. Fleet Corp. built 2,316 vessels, lost 70, scrapped 18, sold...
Next day he read in the newspapers that the planes had taken off from aircraft carriers stationed "somewhere to the southeast," gathered without difficulty that the attack was "as if" from a U. S. battle fleet in the Pacific. Japanese aviation men pointed out that the war games were equally a test of Tokyo's defense against an air attack from Vladivostok. War Minister Sadao Araki said that their purpose was the "spiritual education of the people...
...dock was unsuited, the company chartered the dot-like island of Oie. With 4,000 tons of steel, 60 men and ten weeks time, a platform 1,000 ft. long and 450 ft. wide was built over the island and its 17 inhabitants. On the platform was deposit a fleet of airplanes and 3,000 extras. An ocean liner was necessary to carry the workers twice daily between Oie and the nearest hotel at Rügen. No Marriage Ties (RKO). As this picture opens Bruce Foster (Richard Dix) is a sports reporter who, instead of covering the second Dempsey...