Word: hamburg-american
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Pride of Germany in the spring of 1914, the Hamburg-American liner Vaterland, was the biggest ship afloat when she steamed out of Cuxhaven on her maiden trip to New York. She was nearly 1,000 ft. long, carried 2,646 passengers, drew 48,942 tons. On her third trip to New York the War broke and her owners tied her up at Hoboken for safekeeping...
...length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly in a mudbank. Near the Statue of Liberty a ferry sank a coal-barge. The Hamburg-American liner Resolute sideswiped a freighter, erasing the last six letters of her own name from the bow. Ellis Island's Immigration Station reported it was short of food...
Hailed by Nazis as a master stroke, almost the first economic act of the Hitler regime was to bash together those two able rivals, Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd...
...William) Averell Harriman, son of late Railroadmaster Edward Henry Harriman. has in the past ventured to make a name for himself in the shipping business (Hamburg-American Line) and in air transportation (Aviation Corp.). He has at one time or another tried his hand at developing manganese concessions in Soviet Russia, zinc mines and public utilities in Poland. He still has his interest in one of Manhattan's big banking houses. But for several months his active interest has been the NRA which he has served as New York State NRAdministrator. Last week he got an NRA promotion, moved...
...History of Law, and of Constitutional and Legal History, in the University of Breslau, in Germany, has accepted an invitation from Harvard officials to give a series of lectures, in the Government department, on revolutions. He will arrive either on Saturday or Sunday, November 18 or 19, on the Hamburg-American liner, the "Deutschland...