Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Dollar bought other ships, sent them to China & Japan. He traveled back and forth over the Pacific. Thirty-three times his wife accompanied him. And with more and more money coming in, he expanded until he owned some 40 ships, eight of them sailing steadily round the world. Thirty-six fly the U. S. flag, four, British...
...Captain Dollar plans a celebration of his own. He decided that when the President Polk got to San Francisco he would go on board with his wife, look the crew over, shake hands with the passengers, eat dinner on board. There have been ceremonies like this in the past and after dinner there have been speeches in which Captain Dollar's officials have expressed the things the officials of any successful man usually express in his presence when there is some kind of an anniversary. But possibly, into that dinner on the President Polk, there will come, as there...
When reporters go to Captain Dollar about anything they always end by asking him about his past and always, sitting behind his pale oak desk in the Robert Dollar Building in San Francisco, he answers questions in a deep, dry, old man's voice interrupting himself to get into his favorite subject, China. And then, seeing the pencils stop moving, he remembers the story. "Why don't you put in something about my grandfather? He had a ship himself, you know. Oh, yes, a great big ship. It sank...
...Captain Robert Dollar talks slowly, choosing his words as if they were all going in a cable. He believes there is an opportunity for every man. "From above we can hear the crowd below growling and grumbling and taking it easy." His coats are cut high in the neck and vent and long and full in the skirts like the coats seen in pictures of the great merchants of 40 years ago; he wears a heavy watch-chain. But Captain Dollar is spryer than the old traders who wore his kind of coat and watch-chain. He lives...
After the War someone asked him, "What is the position of U. S. shipping?"-"We are where we were," said Captain Dollar. Though most shippers in western waters thought we were a long way behind or ahead of where we were, Captain Dollar started in 1924 a service of ships named after Presidents, carrying passengers and cargoes round the world from New York with 21 ports of call...