Word: onassises
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Admiral at Work. Burger simply seized the ships, then let them continue operating under the same officers. But he first had both captain and first mate sworn in as deputy U.S. marshals, with the duty of impounding all profits made by the vessel. To accomplish this, Burger had to get...
For a while, Onassis' shipping company ran in the red. But by 1936 he was making enough money to order a 15,000-ton tanker built for him in Sweden, thus became, he claims, the first Greek shipowner to get into oil transport. During the war, with most of...
Onassis is still expanding fast, has 23 more tankers on order (for $130 million) all over the world, including a 45,000-tonner at Hamburg. By next year, he will control 1,250,000 tons v. 750,000 now.
Onassis plans to move a staff of ioc into Monaco's Old Sporting Club building when it is remodeled next summer. He sees only one drawback to linking up with the Monte Carlo Casino, whose operations he will merely supervise from a distance. Says he: "We like to have...
* Among his biggest: Olympic Oil Lines, A.S. Onassis, Ltd., Olympic Maritime, A.G., Panama Maritime, S.A., South Atlantic Marine, S.A.