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Steel's Pineapples. In the name of the National Foreign Trade Council (see p. 53) last week Steelman James Augustine Farrell wired good wishes to 87-year-old Capt. Robert Dollar of San Francisco who was too ill to attend. Despite these felicitations, many a Pacific shipper last week was angry at Steelman Farrell. From Hawaii to the Atlantic, via Panama, ply the steamers of Isthmian Steamship Co., United States Steel unit, pet & pride of Mr. Farrell who has sailed before-the-mast. Last week Isthmian ships, accustomed to return from Hawaii practically empty, contracted to carry James Drummond Dole...
...English," the master shipper of Liverpool, has grown old and his power is slipping from him. He is, as a rival so aptly says, with "one foot in bankruptcy, the other in the grave." Yet he struggles to dominate his opponents, to maintain his independence, and to provide for the heirs who are the remnant of an ill-spent youth. It is this struggle that the actor portrays with his usual appreciation and subtlety. "Old English" dies in the end, the victim of his own will, and it is here that the movie falters dangerously. An obsequy held over...
...martial spirit, year in and year out, in peace time as well as war time). Treating food as a contraband makes for war also among nations likely to be in the business of supplying food; the challenging and invading of what we deemed our rights as a neutral shipper caused President Wilson in 1916 to make a plea for "incomparably the greatest navy in the world." Had ships carrying food then enjoyed the same immunity as hospital ships, it is possible that the area of the Great War might have been more circumscribed. Every nation whose economic status includes...
...shrewd and able executive is Victor M. Cutter, onetime timekeeper and now President of United Fruit Co. Most famed North-Central American enterprise, U. F. C. is the largest fruit shipper (97 steamships in the Great White Fleet), largest landowner (2,000,000 acres in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Canary Islands, Jamaica, Nicaragua, England, France, U. S.), largest U. S. banana importer (1928: 33,872,000 stems). Last year the Great White Fleet carried 72,000 passengers. On land, United Fruit Co. operates 2,300 miles of railway and tramway, owns herds of 30,000 cattle...
...Paul Wadsworth Chapman of Manhattan, a daring and potent bond, real estate, public utility and air transport man. He offered: $13,782,000 for the six U. S. Liners (Leviathan, George Washington, President Harding, President Roosevelt, America, Republic); $2,300,000 for the five "Americans" (Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader); $218,000 for pier leaseholds and sundries-total...