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Blockbuster No. 1. For his text Ives went all the way back to 1926, when Harriman was board chairman of a now-defunct steamship line. The company had obtained two Manhattan piers from Tammany Hall, Ives charged, by paying $250,000 to a corrupt Brooklyn judge. Harriman, testifying before a grand jury in 1930, had denied any knowledge of the transaction. "I can tell you," thundered Ives, "that you can't trust big business . . . particularly the business of the state, to a man who says he didn't know what happened to a quarter of a million dollars...
Filling transportation requests, either coast-to-coast trips or round-the-world flights, are usually routine matters, thanks to the help of the traffic representatives of the airlines, railroads and steamship companies. Occasionally, however, the bureau gets a surprise request. One of the most unusual came from a TIME executive planning an out-of-town convention who asked for a theater car on the train that was to carry the delegates. No one in Travel had ever heard of a theater car; neither had the railroads. The man who made the request explained that it was a car equipped with...
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP travel is setting alltime records. At the midyear mark liners have already carried 367,000 passengers (v. 352,000 at mid-1953). Bookings indicate some 930,000 will sail by year's end. Air travel is also up about...
...side, kick and president of Alleghany Corp.; Earl E. T. Smith, New York Stock Exchange member and former husband of a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Dr. R. Walter Graham, Baltimore physician; William Landers of Utica, retired Central engineer; D. E. Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn, New York Stock Exchange member; Richard M. Moss, president of Clinton Foods, Inc. of Manhattan; Mrs. Wallace; Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star,and News; Orville Taylor, Chicago attorney; Andrew Van Pelt of Philadelphia, Alleghany Corp. director; William...
...Taft-Hartley Act, Scott Lucas of Illinois. Gerald P. Nye is now the president of a records-management and microfilm company, hasn't been in North Dakota in years. Joe Ball has left Minnesota for greener pastures in Manhattan, where he is an official of a steamship agency...