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...bleakest moments in the Korean fighting last September, the Defense Department took over the 48,000-ton United States, standing one-third finished at Newport News, Va. and announced that the ship (biggest passenger vessel ever built in the U.S.) would be converted into a carrier for troops. Last week, without giving any reason, Defense Secretary George Marshall returned the ship to its owner, the United States Lines, told the line to go ahead and finish its $70 million dreamboat as a luxury liner...
Touted as a rival of Cunard's two Queens, the $70 million United States was designed primarily as a naval vessel. She will be fitted to carry 14,000 troops at 30 knots (fast enough to outrun submarines). Also marked for completion as troopships last week were three passenger-cargo liners being built by the American President Lines, the 13,000-ton Presidents Jackson, Adams, and Hayes...
...Government did not take over American Export Lines' 26,000-ton Constitution, which was launched in Quincy, Mass, last week. Unlike the United States, the 1,000-passenger Constitution was designed primarily as a commercial vessel, although she has many defense features. With her sister ship, the Independence, the $25 million Constitution will enter service between New York and the Mediterranean early next year...
...first the hospital ship's fate was completely cloaked by fog and silence. Then, as the first rescue vessel crept through the murk off Seal Rocks, lookouts spotted what looked like scores of tennis balls floating on the offshore swell...
...Cost. What had happened? Both the hospital ship's Captain Barton E. Bacon (who had been the last man off his sinking vessel) and the Luckenbach Line agreed that though both ships were equipped with radar, neither had been relying...