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Three weeks ago Steamship Row heard of a big Italian shipping merger more closely knit than the British and German pooling agreements. Officials of two trans-atlantic Italian lines refused to comment. Giuseppe Cosulich in New York said he had heard nothing about it. Rome despatches last week confirmed the rumors. A new company, Italian Lines, was formed with capital of 800,000,000 lire. Banca Commerciale took a 42% interest, Credito Maritime 40%; the remaining 18% was divided between the shipping companies...
...most of them really for sport, not for science. Their scientific results are in few cases worth the money spent. Dr. Dickey, certain of his own scientific security, decided last week to make his next expedition primarily and frankly a sporting matter. There are de luxe steamship cruises, "dude" ranches. His next trip will be a "dude" expedition. Twelve men will go with him from Ecuador across the Andes and down the Amazon to the Atlantic this winter. Each man will pay $5,000. That will cover all his expenses and equipment except clothing, cigarets and liquor. He will have...
...mind of President Hoover last week than it did on the Southern Governors'. He opposed any idea of involuntary crop reduction or elimination, on the theory that the planters would be worse off than they now are, that hundreds of thousands of workers in gins, cottonseed oil mills, railroads, steamship lines would be rendered jobless by "Drop-a-Crop." The President attacked the problem from the export angle. How, he asked, could cotton surplus be sold outside...
Last This Company Quarter Quarter Acme Steel $ .625 $.50 Addressograph- Multigraph .35 Art Metal Construction .25 Congress Cigar 1.00 Eastern Steamship Lines .50 Electric Storage Battery...
...operates in all about 1,660 miles of tract and owns, jointly with the Atlantic Coast Line, the Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Co. providing service from Florida ports to Havana and Nassau...