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...impenetrable' miles" from Barranquilla to Panama were covered by compass only-true-and he "hacked," "ferried," "pontooned" and carried his Ford (in pieces?) on the very sizable "mule" Lloyd's registered S. S. Venezuela of the Royal Netherlands Steamship...
Engaged, Robert Dollar II, 24, grandson of the late Captain Robert Dollar (founder of the Dollar Steamship Lines); to Charlotte Eudora Dean, daughter of Sacramento, Calif. City Manager James S. Dean; in Sacramento. Grandson Dollar works for the family steamship lines, now headed by Robert Stanley Dollar, his uncle...
Government-owned ships in Far Eastern trade are the 13 vessels of the American Pioneer Line, currently being operated by the Roosevelt Steamship Co. for the account of the Maritime Commission. First ship to which the statement applied was the Pioneer Line's freighter Wichita en route from Baltimore to China with a cargo which consisted partly of barbed wire and 19 Bellanca planes for the Chinese Government. Day after the statement was released, the Wichita put in at San Pedro, Calif., for supplies. Before she proceeded to Manila, her war cargo was unloaded...
...returning from a trip to Alaska, Owney trotted up the gangplank of the steamship Victoria, bound for Japan. There, the Emperor decorated him with a medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by bigwigs who awarded him medals. In Manhattan he remained only a few hours before he was whisked onto a westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful...
...better position than many other U. S. lines, made $643.000 last year with the aid of a Government subsidy of $1,479,000. Said Lawyer Kenneth Gardner who pleaded for the new airline before the House Post Office Committee: "Our line feels that air service will supplement steamship service routes and make it possible to discontinue the construction of large, expensive boats. The practice of the future will be to construct combination passenger and freight boats, but to carry by airplane first-class mail, express matter and the passenger who is in a hurry. . . . I hold no brief against...