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...SUPERSHIP by NOEL MOSTERT 332 pages. Knopf...
Atomic Ship. The shipping industry is already responding to the supertanker success formula: the bigger and faster the ship, the fatter the profit. Aided by the biggest shipping subsidies in peacetime history, long-hungry U.S. shipyards are taking on more and more supership orders, and expect volume to increase. The Maritime Administration estimates that "block obsolescence" of war-built...
Here is the story of the Preussen, the great German five-master, "without a doubt the greatest sailing-ship the world has seen...a supership, a swift giantess among all sailing-ships, the ultimate expression of deepwater Sail." When all of her 30 square-sails were stretched, she presented 60,000 square feet of canvas to the wind...
...torpedoed its big bid for supremacy in the transatlantic luxury liner trade last week. By order of the Defense Department, the U.S. Lines' supership United States, now building in Newport News, Va., will be completed as a troop transport...
...aviation adviser, that the ship was far in advance of anything he had seen. WPB's eye warmed up. It decided not to cancel the Kaiser-Hughes contract - at least, not immediately. But WPB also made it plain that it intends to keep an eagle eye on the supership, may yet cancel the contract...