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When U. S. Lines took over its fleet from the Government in 1929, President Paul Wadsworth Chapman outlined a building program on money borrowed from the Shipping Board under the Jones-White Act. The Manhattan was the first transatlantic passenger vessel built under the new program, the first built in the U. S. since 1897. A day less than one year after the keel was laid the vessel was launched, christened Manhattan by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt...
...minutes later cavalry and infantry, to the number of 1,000 men began moving into Washington for an encounter with the B. E. F. for which the War Department had long been preparing.* In their wake came five small tanks, a fleet of trucks. Bayonets glittered in the sun, equipment clanked over the pavement as the force marched slowly up Pennsylvania Avenue. Reaching the "affected area" (4:45 p. m.) troopers rode straight into the hooting, booing ranks of the B. E. F. Veterans scrambled out of the way of swinging sabres, trampling hoofs. Steel-helmeted infantrymen with drawn revolvers...
...father, an Irish sea-captain, settled in Gloucester as a fisherman. His vessel was lost with all hands. When "Tom Carroll" was ii his brother's schooner also went down with all hands in a terrific storm off the Georges Banks that took 140 lives from the fleet...
...face he hung around the piers, re fused to go with any other company. Soon Gloucester's fishermen were slapping their thighs and squirting tobacco juice with relish at the goings-on in Gorton-Pew. The efficiency experts drew up a schedule of arrivals and departures for the fleet, overlooking the matter of tides, fogs, running seas. They even set the number of fish each vessel should return with. In two years they lost $2,700,000 of the company's money and in 1923 the company was reorganized with Mr. Car roll back as general manager...
...supersalesman Tycoon Bat'a had at his disposal a fleet of ten airplanes strategically located. He used to boast to competitors, "The reason why you do not get ahead and I do is because you travel in wheelbarrows, while I travel in air planes." During most of the night before his death, Salesman Bat'a worked over the terms of a shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. Rising at 5 a. m. he fumed at the fog & mist which made a take-off risky. Twice the pilot refused his mas ter's order to start...