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...that account the capital invested in a ship built in America is about 25% greater than in a similar ship built on the Clyde and the cost of operating an average cargo ship is about $10,000 a year greater under U. S. registry than under foreign registry...
...Japanese Government proposed to send the battleship Kiso or the Isuzu around the world to express gratitude to foreign nations for their aid to Japan during and after the earthquake. Admiral Uriu, an Annapolis graduate, is likely to command the ship...
...Lois Selfridge, mother of Gordon Selfridge, London merchant: "I was among the passengers that arrived in Manhattan on the Olympic. Said the newspapers: 'Mme. Selfridge is now in her 90th year, although few of those who conversed with her on the ship would believe it, so alert and active is she in every sense...
...Standardization of news brings standardized public opinion and this, in turn, rules both political parties and the national Legislature. About 50,000 men and women, who collect and edit this news, bring about this peaceful decision that settles the course to be laid by this ship of state on peaceful and prosperous seas, while Europe, with nations low and children hungry, has its guns...
...always draw our mobs from Universities," he said, "Very frequently, on the other side, students from various British dramatic societies take the mob parts as a part of their stage apprentice-ship; but frequently, also, members of British Universities have, as here, composed our mobs...