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...TIME failed to include the powerful shipping lobby that has obtained for its members millions upon millions of dollars under the guise of "mail contracts." Huge amounts are so paid in many cases for the alleged carriage of mails over steamship routes which could not possibly be utilized in the dispatch of anything but the bulkiest freight...
...these advantages were insufficient, the Government then awarded a so-called mail subsidy contract, under the provisions of which a total of $759,000 has been paid to the lumber company's steamship line for the "carriage of mail" that actually brought the Post Office Department only $274 in postage...
Shipping interests lobby jointly through the American Steamship Association, headed by Herbert B. Walker with offices in Manhattan; attorney and usual legislative representative, Edwin Hamilton Duff...
...Capt. Dollar's fellow Californian Peter B. Kyne. Outstanding Dollar characteristics included extreme frugality, shrewdness, religious devotion. Surviving him are his widow, Margaret Proudfoot Dollar, and three sons, Alexander Melville Dollar, 54, Robert Stanley Dollar, 50, John Harold Dollar, 44. Robert Stanley Dollar has long been president of Dollar Steamship Lines...
...Clarke Hunsaker has made hundreds of theoretical crossings, has gathered an abundance of lore to swell the experience of previous actual crossings. He estimates that schedules can be maintained 80% of the time, that his company can wax rich on a diversion of but 4% of the present deluxe steamship traffic...