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...Berlin the German Foreign Exchange Control Bureau, which is supposed to see that no traveler leaves the Fatherland with more than 200 marks ($65), suddenly tightened up this lax regulation* last week with respect exclusively to steamship tickets. Intending travelers, both German and foreign, were told that they might spend as much as they liked on German steamship tickets, but must get a special permit ("which will only be issued for very good reasons") from the Bureau if they wished to spend more than 200 marks booking passage on a foreign ship. Since no trans-Atlantic passage can be bought...
...whiskey. He cuts off pieces of the hawser and pawns them for liquor so that when Annie sets out to tow a schooner into port she is humiliated by finding that she has no rope. Young Alec, disgusted by his father's dipsomania, goes to work for a steamship company, manages to satisfy his mother's ambition by becoming captain of the company's sleekest passenger ship, the Glacier Queen. The day Alec completes his first voyage, Terry gets drunk on hair-tonic. Annie locks him up in the cabin while she goes to a reception...
...reef. This time Terry behaves like a hero. He crawls into the fire box of the Narcissus to repair the boiler so that the tug can pull the Glacier Queen out of danger. The film ends with Terry recovering from his burns and wear ing a medal. The steamship company has bought back the Narcissus for Annie and she is reconciled with...
...Last week U. S. Steel's subsidiary, Pittsburgh Steamship Co., gave orders to recondition 40 freighters to carry ore down the lakes from Duluth. In 1932 less than 4,000 tons of ore were shipped on the lakes. At the present rate 20,000,000 tons of ore will be shipped in 1933. †First Half...
...high cost of refrigerated water shipments dropped into the railroads' lap the fat job of carrying the West's oranges to the consuming East. The paraffin process seemed likely to win back for the steamship companies a good share of that business, perhaps even increase consumption by lowering Eastern market prices. Untried but inviting were the new method's possibilities for lemons, limes, grapefruit, cantaloupe...