Word: matson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emergence of Secretary of State Cordell Hull as the New Deal's most successful liberal and the integral relation between his 16 foreign trade treaties and U. S. ships; how the Matson Line has edged the wave-ruling British from the South Pacific; how American Export Lines almost made money without Government aid (see p. 30); how Lykes Bros, could lose $7,000,000 in the Gulf in seven years and still net $4,200,000; the diligent falderol and doubtful fun of a cruise to Havana; Maritime Labor; eight typical U. S. ports in paint, seven typical seamen...
...Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles out to the Matson liner Monterey, whose captain had refused to enter the harbor for fear of losing his crew. They left Hawaii in a state of what its Governor Joseph B. Poindexter called "very grave emergency." No one was starving, but Hawaii imports 55% of its food and after three weeks supplies were running...
...Hilo, Hawaii, the Matson liner Matsonia left strikers on the beach, sailed with a skeleton crew...
Crocker First National never loses money, has resources of $142,000,000, handles in addition to the Crocker oil, real estate and railroad interests such lucrative accounts as Matson Navigation, Pacific Gas & Electric, Standard Oil of California, Hawaiian Pineapple. Its dividend rate is $14 and its stock sells for $300 per share...
After about an hour, the captains of both ships decided that they were leaking not too badly, limped into Victoria. Thence the Lyons sailed to Seattle where they boarded a special train for San Francisco to catch the fast Matson Liner Mariposa for Australia. Said genial Premier Lyons to Seattle reporters, "I wish you could meet my wife, but she's asleep. She was rather knocked out, you know, by the steamer collision. She'd been up early in the morning to see the scenery, hoping to have a good sleep that night, and that...