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...keynote of this manner and perhaps its most unfortunate aspect is its suppression of enthusiasm in any form. Life, with all its varied experience and shifting sensations, is not so remarkable after all and the idea is to sail through it as much on an even keel as possible. To be surprised or shocked at anything or to have some absorbing interest is, to say the least, bad form. There is a definite philosophy behind this attitude which would doubtless find its supporters among the Epicureans and Cyrenaics of antiquity--namely, that nothing abides but all things flow...
Looking like nobody's enemy, M. Jean Tillier, tall, broad-shouldered manager of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada, made the challenging announcement in Manhattan. "Within 30 days," said he in crisp English, "we will lay at Saint Nazaire the keel of a liner larger, and also faster, than any ever built before. . . . She will be more than 1,000 feet long, nearer in fact to 1,100 feet. . . .* In her motive power she will follow a comparatively new line, first laid down by the United States Navy and later followed by the French-namely, turbo...
...Washington to New York for the Army-Navy game was forced down by thick fog at Edgewater Arsenal, Md. While the plane was landing, a piece of the fuselage Was blown loose, struck and gashed the .pilot's head, -momentarily stunned him. ∙Comparable rather to a marine keel-laying was the ring-laying and driving of a golden rivet at the beginning of construction on Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.'s ZRS-4, first of the two great Navy dirigibles, last year at Akron (TIME...
Invitations went out last week to attend the keel-laying ceremonies of U. S. Line's new 30,000-ton passenger ship, as yet unnamed, to be launched from Way O of New York Shipbuilding Co.'s Camden, N. J. yard this week. It was on Way O that the aircraft carrier Saratoga was built. The U. S. Line's new liner will be 705 ft. long, have a beam of 86 ft., a speed of 20 knots. It will be the largest merchantman ever built...
...Baltimore last week, at a luncheon given by Baltimore Mail Steamship Co., Vice Chairman Edward Clarence Plummer of U. S. Shipping Board made some pertinent remarks in favor of ship subsidy, largely by means of which the U. S. Line's keel-laying was made possible...