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...shipping tycoons wished it to be understood that this was by no means a merger of British lines such as has been insistently hinted ever since Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd cut out competitive sailings, elected unified boards of directors last spring. The British scheme is a "gentleman's agreement." The Britons frankly admitted that one of the most important objects was to fight German, French, Dutch competition in the North Atlantic. Whether this "gentleman's agreement" would grow into something considerably stronger, they refused to prophesy. Immediate results: next week only one ship...
...plane and its crew flew on to Chicago for the national air races (see p. 47). With them as interpreter went their homeland friend, Fraulein Hertha Seelemann-Mirow, a pilot of the aviation department of the Hamburg-American Line. The return to Germany will be by steamer...
...which it seized from Germany during the War. Under the terms of the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928 Arbiter James W. Remick finally evaluated, as of July 2, 1921, these craft interned in U. S. ports since 1914 and specified indemnification for their German owners. Chief beneficiaries: Hamburg-American Line ($38,801,000) and North German Lloyd...
Sixteen of the ships, with names familiar to pre-War ocean travelers, were in the million-dollar class. No. 1 on the list was the 16-year-old Vaterland (now the Leviathan of the U. S. Lines), for which Hamburg-American will be awarded $13,688,000.* U. S. Lines now own three ships for which North German Lloyd will be compensated as follows: George Washington $3,851,000, Amerika (now America) $2,979,000, President Grant (now Republic) $2,389,000. For its Grosser Kurfurst (now City of Los Angeles of the Los Angeles Steamship...
...Henry Moeller became captain of the Lackawanna Railroad's river barges. In 1903, he became captain of tugs for the Hamburg-American Line. In 1920, he retired and went to live in Hoboken where he often sat in the back-room of Meyer's Hotel, drinking beer with other old captains. Last week he died. His daughter obeyed his request to place, under the dirty, salt-stiffened pilot coat in which Henry Moeller was buried, the purple silk umbrella which he had carried on all his voyages, short or long...