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...taken up advertising on a scale heretofore unknown. It is not merely distributing pamphlet literature telling of accomplishments and prophecying future greatness. It is not introducing subways in order to produce new advertising space. It has conceived a broad scheme of national advertising, to be accomplished by the patriot ship--"Italia," which is to cruise the seas of South America, carrying specimens of Italian manufacture, art, and literature to all the foremost republics of the southern continent. It is a propaganda ship--a veritable floating "Italian Exposition"--to impress the Latin inhabitants of South America, and to stimulate commerce...
...About $30,000,000 is included for the completion of one battleship, two aeroplane carriers, six scout cruisers, thirteen submarines, three fleet submarines, one gunboat, two destroyer tenders, one submarine tender and one repair ship, which were under construction...
Under Lasker and Farley the Shipping Board ruled over the fate of the Government's merchant fleet. Under the recent reorganization of authority, the man responsible for the conduct of the Government's shipping business is no longer the Chairman of the Shipping Board, but the President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation-Admiral Leigh C. Palmer. The change has converted the Shipping Board from a body of ship operators, to a body engaged in the general regulation of ocean-borne commerce. It is now principally a sort of Interstate Commerce Commission of the sea. And the smiling...
Repairs to the Shenandoah are due to be completed May 1. Secretary Denby gave orders for the advance guard to proceed to Alaskan waters and for the reconstruction of the fuel-oil-ship Patoka...
...usual case of a close election for First Marshal, and often is responsible for shifting the order of the Second and Third Marshal. It is perfectly conceivable that a candidate could receive one less vote for First Marshal than the winning candidate and could be excluded from any Marshal-ship by two candidates who had very few votes for First Marshal but, who had a larger number of total votes. This, of course, is an extreme case but far from impossible. In 1920 the elected Third Marshal received 27 more votes for First Marshal than the man who was elected...