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...fleet, the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania, Lord Essendon pits his Majestic, "world's biggest ship," his Olympic, his new Georgic. Both face stern competition from the French Line, the North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American combination, U. S. Lines and to a lesser extent from Il Duce's Italia Line. Though Tsar Emil Lederer of the Transatlantic Passenger Conference keeps fares equalized for all, the fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late great Lord Inchcape's mighty Peninsular & Oriental Steam...
...eliminating duplicate runs. When these economies failed to shore up crumbling merchant marines, pride and profit have dictated mergers. North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American signed a 50-year pact partitioning their North Atlantic trade. In his Fascist forge Benito Mussolini hammered three big Italian firms into the Italia Line, cocky owner of the new S. S. Rex and S. S. Conte di Savoia. Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson interests combined to take over tottering U. S. Lines. Japan's two largest shipping companies, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Co.) and Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co.) last year...
...while Citizen Walker rushed back to his hotel for some left-behind papers'): "I will not wait one minute after twelve o'clock noon!" Five thousand Italians (standing at Fascist salute on Genoa piers as the Rex sailed with Citizen Walker aboard at the last minute): "Viva Italia!" U. S. Ambassador to Italy John Work Garrett (a passenger) : "The ship is magnificent-so luxurious, spacious and comfortable!" Ginlio Gatti-Casazza: "I am sure all Italian people are proud of the creation of their skilled and artistic countrymen. Every part of the Rex was made in Italy...
...warmer, and some say smoother southern route. When the Rex ploughs up New York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden voyage in October, she will have sliced two full days from the southern run. With Italy only one sea day beyond Paris, Il Duce expects his Italia Line will now bring swarms of U. S. tourists to enrich his Fascist land. Time of the two big ships from Manhattan to Gibraltar will be four and a half days, to Nice, six and a half. In actual traveling time the octopi of Naples' famed Aquarium will...
...something was sullenly received. In Paris vehement Deputies and Senators vied with each other in telling correspondents that the U. S. can expect to receive from France payments proportional to what France receives from Germany and not one sou more. In Rome the official Giornale d'Italia said: "Lausanne was the beginning, not the end. . . . The fate of the Lausanne agreement depends on the attitude of the United States, from whom European debtors await an equivalent revision of their financial position...