Word: packets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Line has incurred a deficit, asked the Chamber to guarantee in the name of the State a $6,000.000 French Line bond issue. "The Campagnie Generate is not the only navigation company now in trouble," wound up M. Laval. "I might cite the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company of Great Britain" (TIME, June...
...well-cut morning coat, impeccable striped trousers and white spats. Give him a handsome cane. Crown him with a high silk hat. Make him a Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Make him the colossal figure who merged under the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. the largest group of shipping companies ever created (TIME, Feb. 23). Do all this and you have Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen...
...submit that the profit shown by the Royal Mail Steam Packet on the face of the accounts for 1926 is $1,776,625. The true position, we say, including the losses in the subsidiaries, is that there was in 1926 an actual trading loss...
Among the first to leave was William Hale Thompson. A truck removed his office furniture, including twelve telephones. Then he took a party of 70 not-too-happy friends off on a chartered steam packet Cape Girardeau for a cruise down the Mississippi River...
Royal Mail Submerged. Stormy seas of financial difficulties have long been swamping the once proud & mighty Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (TIME, Dec. 8). Lord Kylsant is being replaced on the bridge by Walter Runciman; a reorganization is planned. Yet to Royal Mail stock-holders last week brought the stormiest...