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First cruise from a U. S. port was conducted by Hamburg-American Packet Co. in 1890, when S. S. Augusta Victoria sailed from New York to the Mediterranean with 225 passengers. Since then many a hard-pressed steamship company has turned to cruises to take up the slack in its regular passenger traffic. Last week 260 cruises planned for the 1931-32 season proved to be too many. Seventeen trips were cancelled, more were likely to be abandoned later. Withdrawn were seven West Indies sailings of Red Star's Belgenland, one each of Cunard's Carinthia and Caledonia, two Mediterranean...
Throngs of teary Germans gathered forlorn on the Hamburg waterfront when fire gutted the Fatherland's superliner Europa as she lay abuilding (TIME, April 8). They knew that Britons, with whom the Europa was chiefly insured, would pay for her reconstruction and put her on the Atlantic to wrest speed supremacy from the British Mauretania. All the same, they gloomed...
Things started with a rush when Dr. Carl Joseph Melchior of Hamburg, partner of the German Warburgs, handed out a voluminous memorandum to show that no matter what happens after the Hoover Moratorium, Germany can never again pay Reparations under the stiff schedules laid down by the Young Plan. He had figures to show that the Albert Henry Wiggin Report of last August underestimated Germany's foreign debts by nearly a billion dollars. He admitted that Germany had at the present moment a favorable trade balance of about $83,000,000 a month, but it could not last. German exports...
Died. Dr. Carl Joachim Stimming, 55, general director of North German Lloyd; of an embolism after a fall in which he suffered concussion of the brain and kidney injuries; in Hamburg. Prior to the World War Dr. Stimming was employed by the Imperial Naval Office at Kiel and in the Naval Ministry. Member of the Norddeutscher Lloyd board at the end of the War, he saw the fleet reduced to a handful of small, obsolete ships. For Dr. Slimming, who succeeded Philip Heineken as director in 1921, was the colossal task of rebuilding the line. In 1927 he succeeded...
Testimony revealed that Hamburg shipping interests have canceled all sailings to Russia, find that the Soviet port undermines their men's morale...