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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1924
Page
7
Garet Garrett argues America’s $3.5 billion merchant marine is a mixed fate, partly afloat and partly rotting in harbors, with public opinion shifting with political winds. He asks what future America wants for its shipping, noting inconsistent business and uncertain national policy.
A historical note recalls the phrase there she blows once signaling hundreds of barrels of sperm oil for lighting the world and now describing a twenty thousand barrel crude oil gush that fuels light heat power and wealth at the mouth of the well.
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