SS President Coolidge Newport News, Virginia built the two ships, completing "President Hoover" in 1930. The keel for "President Coolidge" was laid 22 April 1930 and the ship was delivered 1 October 1931. They were the largest merchant ships built in the United States up to that time. Each ship had turbo-electric transmission, with a pair of steam turbo generators generating current that powered propulsion motors on the propeller shafts. Westinghouse built the turbo generators and propulsion motors for "President Coolidge" but General Electric built the turbo generators and propulsion motors for "President Hoover". In the "President Coolidge" twelve Babcock & Wilcox superheater
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians is a fantasy / weird fiction novella by Bradley Denton. It was first published in "Fantasy and Science Fiction", in June 1988. It republished in Denton's 1994 collection "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians", and his 1998 collection "One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality"; a French translation was published in 1989. In the afterlife, Leonard finds himself confined to the Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians, an institution where comedians who were rude, offensive, obscene, and blasphemous are kept until they can