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...crossed in 18 minutes less than the Bremen's best time, thereby setting a world record of 4 days, 17 hr., 6 min. from Cherbourg to Ambrose Lightship. Meantime her owners announced that they were in the process of entering into a 50-year "commercial alliance" with the Hamburg-American line. Control of each company will remain with its present officers. The tonnages "allied" are so great that they will operate side by side as the third largest mercantile unit in the world, the second being P. & O., and 'the first Royal Mail, both British...
...mummest, most standoffish men in Germany, there was excitement last week when a warm handclasp and a brief joint statement momentarily linked those titanic shipping rivals, diminutive, roly-poly General Director Carl Stimming of North German Lloyd and tall, immaculate General Director Dr. Wilhelm Cuno of Hamburg-American...
...made to pay handsomely he thinks. He tightened his tie, which slips loose on his thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days for the crossing. As the indom- itable, tired oldster (he is 61) boarded her, his grey pants wrinkled from much conference sitting...
Maximilian Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, his license to fight where fighting is most lucrative still withheld by the New York State Boxing Commission was "practically a nervous wreck" as he stepped aboard the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, bound for Berlin, his mother and a rest. Warned that unless he soon returned Argentine's Victorio Maria Campolo would replace him as world's champion heavyweight contender, Herr Schmeling scoffed: "Campolo is a one-day fly ... here today and gone tomorrow...
...Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home on the Hamburg-American liner Thuringia, ignominiously...