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...long before the Potomac sailed there was a question of how much rest the President could get. Before leaving Washington he had conferred with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Colonel Donovan, home from the wars. He went over Lauchlin Currie's final report on his trip to China. He talked over the setup of a "home defense" for the U. S. in a conference with ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Assistant Federal Security Administrator Wayne Coy, Budget Director Harold Smith, Harry Hopkins. Before traintime he saw Secretary of War Stimson, talked with William Knudsen about appointments...
...ships were the finest in the world. Before the Civil War the U. S. had the best and second-biggest (2,379,000 tons) fleet of merchantmen on the high seas, and carried over 77% of its foreign commerce in its own bottoms. But steam was replacing sail, and the U. S. never took to steam; it was too busy with other things: gold in California, oil in Pennsylvania, the Civil War, tricks with machinery. By 1880 the U. S. merchant fleet was a pitiful remnant; by 1910 it was touching bottom with 782,000 tons in foreign commerce...
With Dr. Houser will sail Harold B. Foy, of the American Red Cross, who will be director of accounts for the hospital, and Kingsley Van A. Gwyer, an engineer, who will supervise erection of the 126-bed, prefabricated "siege" hospital...
Gerald F. Houser, Assistant Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital, will sail on the Excalibur tomorrow for England, where he will be Superintendent of the American Red Cross-Harvard Hospital, established for the study and treatment of communicable diseases under wartime conditions...
...experts on the U. S. hinterland set sail for South America to interpret themselves (and the U. S. hinterland) to Latins. Grizzled Author Sherwood Anderson (Home Town) headed for Chile; eager, pink-cheeked Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town) expected to fill lecture-appointments under State Department auspices in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru...