 The refit increased "Pennsylvania"s tonnage by about 2,000 tons.On 4 October 1938 Moore-McCormack Lines contracted to operate "California", "Virginia", "Pennsylvania" and 10 cargo ships between the USA and South America as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy.Moore-McCormack renamed the three passenger liners "Argentina", "Brazil" and "Uruguay", and assigned them to the fleet of its American Republics Lines subsidiary.