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Last week 57,000 tons more went overboard through the sale by William Averell Harriman's United American Line of the Resolute, Reliance and Cleveland to the Hamburg-American Line. This will give Germany a gross merchant tonnage of 3,130,713, practically where she was in 1917 and not far below her 1919 registry, which the Allies wrecked by confiscation...
...years ago Mr. Harriman, then only 29 years old, made a pact with the Hamburg-American Line. In 1916, only three years out of Yale, he had decided that "the most important matter connected with the growth and well-being of the U. S." was shipping. He put to the back of his mind the legacy of railroad activities that his dour, nervous father, Edward Henry Harriman,* left him, that he himself trained in. He took interest in a small shipbuilding plant on the Delaware, enlarged it, built concrete shipways. After the War he operated Shipping Board vessels on commission...
...wanted to talk to her sister, a Mrs. Emil Berolzheimer. Mrs. Berolzheimer was also at sea, 150 miles away, on another German liner. Nevertheless, Mrs. Sampter marched into a telephone booth aboard her ship, the North German Lloyd Columbus, and was soon gabbling with her sister, on the Hamburg-American Deutschland, about fashions, family matters and a political dinner Mrs. B.'s brother-in-law had lately attended. For eight minutes they talked, exclaiming, interrupting each other, both talking at once. After she rang off, Mrs. Sampter paid the wireless operator of the Columbus her toll...
...ship in a degree that is probably all out of proportion to the importance of the invention. In any event, it may well be several years before the principle, if practical, is sufficiently developed to be put to commercial use. A report was published that the Hamburg-American line had ordered ten rotorships, was denied from Berlin...
...Deutschland (Hamburg-American)-General Plutarco Elias Calles, President-elect of Mexico (see Page...