Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cruises come in all shapes and sizes, from the Caronia's annual round-the-world ($2,875-$ 14,000) to Eastern Steamship Corp.'s all-expenses weekend sprees starting at $59 between Miami and Nassau. There are special cruises emphasizing bridge (with Charles Goren), culture (Japanese brush painting and photography). And for the "adventurous"-meaning those with a hankering for hardship, seamanship, courtship or strong drink-there is something called a "Windjammer Cruise...
...foreign operating costs. Since wages are un likely ever to be rolled back, the ship ping industry's sole chance of getting off the federal dole ($245 million in 1963) is to replace men with machines. Steaming ahead of all the others in that direction, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. last week asked the Government for an unusual subsidy: to put up, in the interest of efficiency, half of the $6,000,000 required to modernize and automate 21 Lykes freighters that are already sailing the seas...
...left in the shadows. Up to this point, family responsibilities and a desire for freedom apparently suffice to explain the boys' ambitions. But finally Stavros realizes that to reach America he has no choice but to defile himself. He does not hesitate. Angling for a dowry to buy a steamship ticket, Stavros consents to marry the daughter of a wealthy rug merchant, whose bourgeois contentment repels him. But he has begun to concoct American-sounding rationalizations for his new tactics: "You have to look out for yourself in this world. You can't afford to be human." Soon Stavros abandons...
Charlie Gee (pronounced as in gee whiz) had begun the embezzling in his bank in 1923, after another bank that he had set up in Hong Kong suddenly went broke. Because the news came to San Francisco by steamship, Charlie knew nothing of it for three weeks, continued to send some $80,000 in clients' deposits to the defunct bank-and down the drain...
...airlines this year will carry at least 21 times that many passengers, but the transatlantic ship lines have improved their own position by concentrating on what the speedy jets cannot offer. Says Sir John Brocklebank, chairman of Britain's Cunard Steamship Co.: "With jet travel, there is no need for an Atlantic ferry." Instead, the lines sell the idea of leisure, roominess, food, fun and salt spray...