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Salve. To soothe labor's slow burn, the mobilization high command quickly made a salving gesture. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston appointed George M. Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, to be a special assistant, specializing in price and wage issues. It was a salve-but not enough to quiet union leaders' grumbles...
Furthermore, the bill in its present condition is much too inclusive. Although aimed at the M.T.A., the bill does not specify the M.T.A. Thus the student commuter could ride any airplane, steamship, railroad, or bus in Massachusetts at half fare. A student who lived in a distant Massachusetts community could ride home at half price...
...Japanese export laws."The shipment, O'Conor added, was made possible by "misrepresentation" and "spurious" bills of lading. To crusty, crafty Hans Isbrandtsen, whose shipping line had drawn up some of the questionable bills of lading, O'Conor's charges were an outrage. "A steamship line such as ours," said he, ". . . follows the shipper's directions . . . whenever those directions are within regulations...
When the Federal Government stepped in twelve years ago to salvage his foundering Dollar Steamship Lines, President R. (for Robert) Stanley Dollar was grateful for the chance to abandon ship. His famed globe-girdling shipping line, founded in 1901 by his canny Scottish father, Captain Robert Dollar, was crusted with the barnacles of mismanagement, and carried a top-heavy load of holding companies...
...keeping a close eye on costs (the airline has no headquarters of its own, shares offices with a state-subsidized steamship company), Pacelli, Mazzarini and Gallo are able to undercut the railroads on some domestic routes and still make a profit. L.A.I, has paid a 5% dividend to its' stockholders every year...