Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lights Out in Europe (Kline). In the war-sultry May of 1939 a short, heavyset, peaceful-looking young American bought steamship tickets for Europe and began to pack his motion picture camera equipment. He smelled fighting...
...globe-girdling Pan American Airways. And one of ATCO's chief stockholders-Manhattan Bankers Lehman Bros.-has a partner, Robert Lehman, on Pan Am's board. What makes this interesting to flying men is that Lehman Bros, owns the largest single interest (38.7%) in American Export (steamship) Lines, which controls American Export Airlines. And American Export Airlines is currently after a CAA authorization to compete with Pan Am on the Atlantic...
...what trouble followed Sept. 1929 few U. S. citizens need to be told. Mr. Allen tells it with enough street-corner detail to suggest its charms. In 1930-31, for instance, steamship lines began running week-end cruises, or saturnalia, outside the Twelve Mile Limit. Apple salesmen shivered on wintry corners. Free wheeling was added to necking as a thing to do with cars. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries ("Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious"*) expressed the nonchalant response to Depression. Bobby Jones had a Manhattan triumph after winning the British Amateur...
...take a stronger stand. The U. S. had economic weapons to force Britain to show due respect, could send naval escorts to convoy merchant ships. What if a U. S. vessel should defy British patrol boats at Gibraltar, refuse to stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure of the City of Flint, the U. S. freighter which was captured by the Germans...
...royalty of 25? a ton (when other mines were drawing royalties of 65? a ton); guaranteed that Carnegie Steel Co. would bring out at least 600,000 tons a year; agreed to ship this plus another 600,000 tons a year from the Oliver mine over Rockefeller railroad and steamship lines...