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...Connor simply said he had had audience with Henry Ford, from whom he had wrung a tentative offer to take 400 of the listless bottoms at something between $1 and $7 per ton (scrap price). At $3 per ton, the entire listless fleet of 5,700,000 tons would bring about $17,000,000. Mr. Ford would probably pay about half that for about half the fleet-all is quite vague. Mr. Ford thought he might use 30 or perhaps only 10 for commerce; the rest for junk...
Henry Ford is one of the most inveterate bargain-hunters in the country. Old inns, old sap-buckets, old railways delight him. Particularly, he has been interested in dilapidated things which the Government has vainly clung to. Refused Muscle Shoals on his own terms, he now considers the idle fleet. Selling things to Mr. Ford, however, is no royal road to fortune...
...there is a state of Iowa or don't you give a damn*? Personally, I believe that the country would be better off if we took your city, Chicago, Detroit and all the rest of 'em out in the Pacific Ocean and used them for target practice for that fleet that is burning up the "jack" by the thousands and hundreds of thousands each...
Died. Admiral Sir Frederick C. Doveton Sturdee, 66, in command of the victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...
...report that the "government-owned fleet, now being operated by the Shipping Board can be sold, and American companies can operate them successfully" comes, therefore as welcome news to most citizens. The problem of disposal of the vast fleet built to carry troops and supplies to France has ever been a pressing one and has never been solved. Government operation has been carried on at a considerable loss. Private companies have hesitated to assume the risks incident to ocean navigation. This fact is indeed the best commentary on the real status of the American merchant marine...