Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chevrolet's Changes. For even those who personally examined the new Chevrolet models the description by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., G.M.C. president, fixed the values. Said President Sloan: "The most striking advance, however, is an entirely new line of Fisher bodies, which, together with a new radiator and hood treatment, results in an artistic development which has never been equaled before in motor cars in the Chevrolet price class. The new bodies provide not only great luxury of appointment but added comfort and convenience as well as considerably more room. Four-wheel brakes have also been included to effect...
Kermit Roosevelt and John M. Franklin, with no pomp but little circumstance, began the rate war. They are respectively the sons of the late President Roosevelt and President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine; and respectively they are the president and vice president of the Roosevelt Line, which operates U. S. Shipping Board vessels between India and U. S. ports on the North Atlantic...
Their ships have carried practically no jute. The Isthmian Line, potent ship subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corp., have carried four cargoes a year, the Cunard-Brocklebank Line two each month, and the Ellerman- Bucknell Line (oldest in the trade) the rest. They had old, excellent contacts with the chief U. S. importers of jute-the Bemis Bag Co., Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, Chase Bag Co., American Manufacturing...
...year ago when the Indian jute shippers were making their 1927 cargo contracts, the Roosevelt Line asked for a free hand in securing 16 ship loads. The intrenched companies politely laughed at their bumptiousness...
Last week contract time came again and again the Roosevelt Line sought to break into the jute trade. Nor did they come softly. They brandished before the eyes of shippers and importers of jute a freight rate card. That card offered to carry a ton of jute from Calcutta to New York or Boston for approximately $4. The rate had been $7.90 a ton. The Cunard-Brocklebank officials read the Roosevelt Line rate figures and, counting well on the loyalties of old clients, reduced their rate to $4.50 a ton. A rate...