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Sirs: Under the depressing caption "Cruises Cancelled" in TIME, Jan. 11, you mention among other items of travel news that Cie Internationale des Wagons Li ts et des Grands Express Européens abandoned the Manhattan office (No. 701 Filth Avenue). This statement, technically correct, is nevertheless misleading. It would have been better to explain that the building was abandoned, and not the office. This office staff, furniture, etc., was moved from its one-story premises at No. 701 Fifth Avenue to the recently enlarged Thos. Cook & Son offices at No. 587 Fifth Avenue, comprising six working floors. (Thos. Cook...
Abandoned also was the Manhattan office of International Sleeping Car Co. (Cie Internationale des Wagons Lits et des Grands Express Eurapecas), famed from Peiping to Paris as the operator of pullman and restaurant cars...
Florenz Ziegfeld was named vice president and art director of Golding Fabrics Corp. President of the company is Edwin I. Golding, oldtime silkman, onetime president of Stehli Fabrics Corp. Treasurer is Herbert Bleyer, past president of Doucet et Cie. In the trade Silkman Golding is known as a "superior salesman." The new company will have for its slogan: "Glorifying the American Girl." It will stress designs for a special type of woman. If the woman thinks she looks like a member of the Ziegfeld chorus she will easily find her dress, for each label will give the name...
...system works: Sclimitz A. G. of Berlin receive an order for $100.000 worth of sausages from Pierre et Cie of Paris. They fill the order. The sausages are shipped from Berlin to Paris. Thereupon the German Government pays Schmitz A. G. $100.000: and Pierre et Cie pay the French Government $100,000. Obviously the eject of this procedure is that the German Government has paid $100,000 to the French Government, although no money whatever crossed the frontier...
France contended last week that contracts already existing between firms like Schmitz A. G. and Pierre et Cie must not be disturbed by the Hoover Holiday, a primary purpose of which is to promote world trade. But on this point President Hoover set his square jaw. His reason: "such deliveries" are in effect "payments." Mr. Hoover let it be known that "the spirit of the [Hoover] proposal" demands that no reparations payments be made by Germany during the moratorium year except such as are reloaned to Germany through...