Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sustained by higher courts, this decision will establish an important precedent. The Supreme Court has always recognized the authority of Congress over all navigable waters, not just steamship lanes. Last week's decision for the first time puts U.S. air on the same basis as U.S. waters, establishing federal authority over the navigable air, not just the airways...
...Transport) and "grandfather rights" on applications for transatlantic routes to Lisbon and the Mediterranean. The deal enabled American Export Lines Inc. to dispose of its control of Amex-which it had to do, under the CAB ruling that ocean carriers are not permitted to operate air routes. But Export Steamship will retain 24% of the airline stock, will probably act as the airline's agents abroad...
Taking office as his city's 29th mayor, San Francisco's shipping tycoon (American Hawaiian-Steamship Co.) and longtime leading citizen Roger Dearborn Lapham, 60, made a promise: "I shall not run for mayor again. I am glad of that pledge because it gives me an inner freedom of mind which I could not otherwise have...
...vote-getting side, Lapham turned out to have virtues: a World War I rec ord; a start in life as clerk of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (he is now board chairman). As an employer member of the National War Labor Board, Lapham won praise from Franklin Roosevelt for his fairmindedness; once he was even praised as a "fair and honest" employer by militant Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
...American drafted a tentative postwar schedule of prices to titillate globe-hoppers. Its figures are below the rates of prewar first-class steamship travel...