U.S. “SUPER-LINERS”
BUILDING POSTPONED INDEFINITELY. NEW YORK. March 12. The failure of Congress to authorise a big increase in mail rates is the reason given to-day lor the indefinite of the plans hv the United States Lines to build two superliners to beat the British and Germans in the North Atlantic. Another reason is the faulure of the American concern to raise its snare or the money necessary for the constructions of vessels on the scale of Germany’s Europa and Bremen and of those contemplated by British interests.
An agreement to bu/kl American liners costing at least £4.009,00 earn, with a speed of thirty knots, was part of the contract under which the Shipping Hoard sold the Leviathan and other big ships to the promoters of the United States Lines
The “Big Navy” party in Washington will press for liberal terms on the ground) that iJlieie super-liners are necessary for national defence, buff the Rost Office has so far refused the enormous mail payments considered necessary to build the “biggest and fastest” [ships in the world.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1931, Page 5
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176U.S. “SUPER-LINERS” Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1931, Page 5
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