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SS United States headed to junk pile?
Philadelphia Business Journal ^
| February 23, 2009
| Peter Van Allen
Posted on 03/11/2009 1:45:45 PM PDT by americanophile
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Fastest liner in the world.
To: americanophile
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:47:03 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
To: Crazieman
To: americanophile
We definitely need to require a certain percentage of trans-Atlantic travelers to travel on this vessel. Or to use it as a troop transport to send our soldiers back and forth to posts in Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:47:50 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead (3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87))
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:48:19 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: americanophile
I sailed to Europe on her in 1968.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:49:06 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Typical white person-Snow white)
To: americanophile
Definitely though it was a Social Security thread about which the title is true also.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:49:25 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: americanophile
To: americanophile
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:50:44 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Communist China is doing more to foster capitalism in their country than our politicians are doing.)
To: americanophile
You always go to Windmill Point restaurant in Nags Head, N.C. Some of the furniture and other items from the ship has adorned it for years. I always thought that was all there was to it until I saw your post. Interesting.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:51:05 PM PDT
by
JZelle
To: americanophile
“...35 knots an hour.”
I hate stuff like that.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:51:37 PM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: americanophile
It was never more than a footnote to the Age of Liners, though: it came along too late to establish a mystique.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:51:52 PM PDT
by
Grut
To: americanophile
She’d make a nice presidential yacht. Maybe a little small for the current chief executive’s taste, but times are tough.
To: americanophile
Scrap the bugger. No way should Twice it's original cost (face it, these things NEVER come in on budget) be sucked out of the taxpayers pockets, just so it can be a museum piece.
And who knows, Obama might take it for his own private yacht.
Sell it for 79 million worth of scrap to a US steel mill. At today's prices and with union labor, it should make 100 million worth of new steel.
To: americanophile
I heard there was a lot of Aluminum used in the construction of the superstructure on that ship. I never heard the Falklands thing before the QE2 was used I think.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:53:41 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
To: Nathan Zachary
haha...no sentimentalist you. I should think a ship that fast would have a perfectly good military application. A great high-speed troop transport.
To: GreyFriar
Or to use it as a troop transport to send our soldiers back and forth to posts in Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan. 2/3 of the construction cost was borne by the US government to do just that.
Lots of aluminum for scrap. wow.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:55:42 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: americanophile
A last hope may be redirecting some of the $782 billion in federal stimulus funding perhaps money earmarked for infrastructure. Oink! Oink! I worked for the money the government takes away from me, and I could give a rat'sass about their stinking ship.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:55:52 PM PDT
by
San Jacinto
(gorebull warming -- the Socialists' Shortcut.)
To: Cheetahcat
There was...it was designed to be fire retardant. It didn’t have the sumptuous interiors that British liners had, very functional...but it was fast.
To: americanophile
I should think a ship that fast would have a perfectly good military application. A great high-speed troop transport. It was originally designed for use as such.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:56:43 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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