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Article: REMEMBERING SS UNITED STATES

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September 1, 1996
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
09-01-1996
REMEMBERING SS UNITED STATES
Date: 09-01-1996, Sunday
Section: REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
Column: YOUR VIEWS

I am pleased The Record is continuing to follow the movements of
the SS United States ("Keeping a dream afloat," Aug. 21). Many longtime
employees of United States Lines, the former owners, live in New Jersey
and New York, and are deeply sentimental about the vessel and follow
its career closely, even in its current state of lay-up.

Your article quotes Frank Braynard as saying that the only wood
permitted on board by the designer, William Francis Gibbs, were the
pianos, chopping block, and keelsons; this has always ...

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