turbines permit a top speed of 21^/2 knots, and her cruising radius is 

 14,000 miles. The Washington was built in 1932 by the New York Ship- 

 building Company, Camden, New Jersey. 



The United States Lines also operate one of the finest fleets of cargo 

 vessels, headed by forty ships of the crack C-2 type. These ships are easily 

 recognized by the names they bear: American Ban\er, American Farmer, 

 American Importer, American Leader, American Merchant, American 

 Shipper and American Traveler, to mention only a few. Others are called 

 the Pioneer Cove, the Pioneer Star, and so on. As they sail across the 

 Atlantic to and from United Kingdom ports and the Continent, they 

 carry diverse cargoes — everything from citrus fruits, tobacco and automo- 

 biles to whiskey, furs and bed feathers. 



