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...shipping trust, is today the No. 1 tycoon of U. S. shipping. When he became president of I. M. M. in 1921 he was also a great tycoon of shipping but not of U. S. ships. Then I. M. M.'s big lines were White Star, Red Star, Leyland, and Atlantic Transport Ltd., all of which fly the British flag...
...fleet of six lines (Red Star, Atlantic Transport, Leyland, Baltimore Mail, U. S. Lines, American Merchant Lines) plying the main Atlantic route with weekly and bi-weekly sailings...
...service to South & Central America, operated by Leyland Line...
...especially famed are: 1) Pennsylvania, California, and Virginia, turbo-electrics operated by Panama Pacific Line, the largest U. S.-built ships of their type; 2) Minnetonka and Minnewaska of Atlantic Transport Lines; 3) Belgenland, largest in the Red Star Service. Another important I. M. M. unit is the Frederick Leyland Line, sailing between European, Central and North American and West Indies ports. Although no plans have been announced, shippingmen expect Roosevelt Lines to place more ships under the U. S. flag...
Whistler is the greatest single name in the collection. His famous " Peacock Room," transported bodily from London, is there, the room which Whistler painted for the English shipping magnate, Leyland, whom he satirized as a peacock rising from a mound of gold...