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...shipful of passengers could not be safely evacuated because there is only one exit; novices would not know how to use a 'chute, probably would not jump if they had the chance. (Critic Graham: Let more exits be installed. Let passengers be instructed in 'chuting, as steamship passengers are taught how to use life preservers. Who can say whether or not they would jump...
...behooved Theodore's Republican kin to get behind the Hoover candidacy for reelection. The family was scattered. Settled quietly at Oyster Bay was Mrs. Ethel Roosevelt Derby, the President's other daughter. Cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt was serving as Detroit's comptroller. Brother Kermit was running a steamship line in Manhattan. Brother Theodore, adding fresh lustre to the name, was starting out for the other side of the world. Alice remained in Washington, perhaps to try to woo Hoover support from such a vehement anti-Hooverite as her good friend Senator Borah. There were two others. They were Franklin Delano...
...marine. Japan threatened last week to close the port of Shanghai to all Chinese vessels. One of the city's greatest tycoons is grizzled, wily old Yu Ya-ching, ex-President of the Chamber of Commerce, Municipal Councilor, Managing Director of the Sanpeh Steam Navigation Co., second largest Chinese steamship company, and generally known as "The Big Boss of Shanghai." He is rumored to be one of the leading spirits of the Anti-Japan Boycott Society. Japan could at least ruin Tycoon Yu. And she could do more than that. The Japanese Cotton Spinners' Association owns twelve mills in Shanghai...
Automobile manufacturers often wish that they could attract the patriotic fervor to their products that shipbuilders and steamship operators do to theirs. If, for example, British Austin Motor Co.. Ltd. should be forced to suspend "Baby Austin" production the average Briton would not feel called upon to do anything about it. But last month when Cunard Line felt it necessary to stop work on its 73,000-ton No. 534, British patriots reacted as to a national calamity. Retired colonels, war widows and schoolboys sent in small sums to Cunard Line; the Government was put under pressure to offer...
First cruise from a U. S. port was conducted by Hamburg-American Packet Co. in 1890, when S. S. Augusta Victoria sailed from New York to the Mediterranean with 225 passengers. Since then many a hard-pressed steamship company has turned to cruises to take up the slack in its regular passenger traffic. Last week 260 cruises planned for the 1931-32 season proved to be too many. Seventeen trips were cancelled, more were likely to be abandoned later. Withdrawn were seven West Indies sailings of Red Star's Belgenland, one each of Cunard's Carinthia and Caledonia, two Mediterranean...