SS United States Foundation in the New York Times!

[Robert]

Congratulations for to SS United States Foundation Chairman, Dan
Trachtenberg for his work in getting the Foundation mention in the New
York Times. This is the eight such placements in the “paper of record”
for the Foundation and points to a continuing interest in the
Foundation’s efforts to Save the United States by the most influential
newspaper in the world. Again, congratulations Dan!
Robert Hudson Westover,
Chairman Emeritus,
SS United States Foundation,
Washington, DC

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/nyregion/22fyi.html
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An Oceangoing Relic
Q. On the front of the West Side pier that houses the car pound is a
sign for “United States Lines.” This steamship company has been out of
business for decades. Why is the name there?
A. Pier 76, at the end of West 36th Street, now houses towed cars and
Midtown Manhattan’s police horses, but it was once a freighter pier
for the United States Lines. The police were towing cars to the pier
by 1977, before the line had gone out of business, and the company may
have still been using part of the pier then. The tow pound is well
lighted for security reasons, partly illuminating what is now a
nostalgic ghost sign.
The company’s 991-foot flagship, the trans-Atlantic liner United
States, never used Pier 76, being several hundred feet too long, said
Dan S. Trachtenberg, chairman of the S.S. United States Foundation, a
nonprofit group based in Washington that wants to save the famed ship.
Instead, it used Pier 86, off West 45th Street, where the Intrepid
Sea, Air and Space Museum now rests. The liner, now owned by the
parent company of Norwegian Cruise Line, is kept at a pier in
Philadelphia. MICHAEL POLLAK