Word: packets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First cruise from a U. S. port was conducted by Hamburg-American Packet Co. in 1890, when S. S. Augusta Victoria sailed from New York to the Mediterranean with 225 passengers. Since then many a hard-pressed steamship company has turned to cruises to take up the slack in its regular passenger traffic. Last week 260 cruises planned for the 1931-32 season proved to be too many. Seventeen trips were cancelled, more were likely to be abandoned later. Withdrawn were seven West Indies sailings of Red Star's Belgenland, one each of Cunard's Carinthia and Caledonia, two Mediterranean...
...loans under the Jones-White Law. What annoyed Congressman Davis was that the Leviathan should be laid up while White Star Line's Majestic continued in service. He pointed out that I. M. M. is U. S. agent for White Star Line which it sold to Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. in 1927, and for which is still owed $11,000,000 on the transaction. Declared he: "The I. M. M. must constantly have to make a choice whether it will throw the weight of its great influence and loyalty to the line for which it is agent...
...Mitchell, general manager of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., succeeded jailed Lord Kylsant as chairman. No spectacular figure is the new chairman. He entered the company as a junior clerk 39 years ago. His father was with Royal Mail 50 years before...
Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, former chairman of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. sentenced to jail for a year for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus (TIME, Nov. 16), refused to eat or take exercise, was placed in an observation cell...
...defendant, has been a Peer of Britain only since 1923. In revenge for that he traces his ancestry back to Vortigern, King of the Britons (who in turn reputedly traced his ancestry back to the Emperor Maximus), and at 40 had made himself master of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., virtual owner of the Union Castle, White Star, Lamport & Holt and half a dozen other lines, the most powerful figure in the world's mercantile marine...