Word: onassisism
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The chief collector of revenue for the Peruvian government leaned back in a chair in his oak-paneled office one morning last week, held up a slip of paper and chortled. "This," he remarked genially, "is the biggest private check ever paid in Peru." Then, turning businesslike, he handed a...
The record check was in payment of a fine levied against Onassis after Peru caught five of his whaleships hunting within the 200-mile offshore limit that Peru claims to control. But in Paris Onassis was just about as pleased as the Peruvian government. He had come out of his...
Bombs & Bullets. Onassis' 1954-55 whaling expedition sailed from Hamburg last August to hunt sperm whales off Peru for a few months before steaming south for the rich January-May bluefin whaling in the antarctic. The factory-ship and its 15 catchers were barely through the Panama Canal when...
SHIPPER ARISTOTLE ONASSIS is in for more stormy weather. The U.S. Government is moving to repossess the 16 surplus tankers that Onassis bought from the U.S. and is suing for $20 million that it charges he made illegally on the deal.
*Under the deal, Onassis would ship only 10% of Saudi Arabia's oil at first, but the percentage would be stepped up over the years.