Betty B.
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which Columbus took across the Atlantic.
This ship can hardly last more than 25 years, so that in addition to its ordinary profits, it has to earn enough to cover a depreciation of about $1 million a year.
End of Chapter 2 Chapter 3 of France to Scandinavia by Frank G. Carpenter
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Recording by Betty B. Our Mortgage on France Cherbourg, on the English Channel, is the French port of call for all the American lines, and we stepped out in France within less than six days after leaving New York.
Most of our passengers went by rail to Paris Direct, a comfortable trip of a few hours, but I have come across country to Avre to start my motor car journeys at the mouth of the Seine.
This port is the natural gateway for freight from the Atlantic, not only to Paris, but to all France, Switzerland, southwestern Germany, and the countries beyond.
It vies with Marseille in its tonnage, and upon its docks are landed more than three-quarters of the cotton and the bulk of the machinery, fuel oil, and breadstuffs we sell to the French.
The sugar of Cuba, the coffee of Puerto Rico and Brazil, the silk and other goods brought from the Orient through the Panama Canal
and grain and hides from South America come here.
A fishing village in the times of the Romans, Avra began its development when Francis I was king, but it was built up largely by Napoleon Bonaparte.
It is now one of the well-equipped entrepots of Western Europe.
The entrance to the harbor is narrow and easily fortified, but within are 200 acres of great basins where the huge vessels can lie at the wharves
and discharge their cargoes into the warehouses, or load them on trains or canal boats for all parts of Europe.
The distance to Paris by the Seine is only 123 miles, and a caravan of boats and barges is always moving that way.
The city has eight miles of docks, including one reserved for private yachts, and a dry dock more than 1,000 feet long and deep enough to accommodate vessels drawing 44 feet.
It has also a floating dry dock taken from the Germans at the close of the World War and such good port facilities that it will steadily grow.
But before we start on our travels, I want you to look at France as an American asset.
By our loans of the World War, we hold a mortgage upon her of more than $4 billion.
This money came out of your pocket and mine when we put our savings into the Liberty Bonds to meet the interest upon which we shall keep on paying taxes
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