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...Office $26,500,000 this year, replace them with a direct subsidy large enough in each case to put a U. S. ship operator on equal footing with his foreign competitors; 2) to stimulate the building of new U. S. ships by giving subsidies up to 50% of a vessel's cost to equalize the high price of shipbuilding in the U. S. with the low price abroad. Other tasks include getting rid of the rusting Wartime fleet of 162 ships left by the Shipping Board. The temporary commissioners announced in January that none of these 17-year...
...Ridgeway my great aunts, aged 90 and 80 years, tell me of his soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...
...waited for reinforcements, tried to whip his command into shape. To his purple-faced disgust he found that after a four-months' cruise it took his flagship an hour to up anchor, that "in an hour ten ships did not succeed in forming line, although the leading vessel went dead slow." In final target practice, after a furious fusillade, the target was unscathed. The morale of the fleet was not improved by these revelations, nor by the increasingly bad food, which caused a successful mutiny...
...research vessel "Atlantis" of the Oceanographic Institute forthwith set out on an expedition for this purpose, with Dr. Hjort, Professor Bigelow, Professor Redfield, and others on board. A week's voyage between Woods Hole and Cape Small was enough to convince Dr. Hjort that the shrimps are here in commercial quantities...
...hrer was highly delighted when, after a Spanish White warship had fired on the British steamer Blackhill, the doctrine was boomingly announced from London this week that "whenever doubt arises as to whether a British vessel is carrying arms or munitions to Spain, it is for the British Navy, not for any foreign authority, to take appropriate action." In Berlin, high officials said that this was Adolf Hitler's naval doctrine too, and German warships in Spanish waters continued seizing and pot-shooting at Red ships, claiming they did this "in reprisal" for the Reds' continued refusal...