Transport: Eagles for $$

For more than a decade the 10,516-ton merchantman President Adams has sailed the seaways of the world under the bold, white dollar-sign insignia of the Dollar Steamship Lines. But next week when the President Adams steams out of San Francisco for the Far East and round the world, the familiar $$ will be missing from her single stack. In their place will perch jaunty silver eagles, emblem of the new, Government-controlled American President Line.

Since early this year all but one of the 15 Dollar liners, all named after U. S. Presidents, have gone...

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