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...Save Our Ships" Two of the country's greatest steamship companies sent out frantic calls of S. O. S. last week. Gravely the United States Shipping Board pondered whether or not it should go to the rescue, and if it should, how to go. Loudest of the calls was from United States Lines Inc. whose master is ambitious Paul W. Chapman. In 1929, U. S. Lines acquired eleven vessels from the U. S. Shipping Board for $16,000,000, paid $4,000,000 down. It has two large ships abuilding which will cost $22,000,000, and on which...
...other S. O. S. was from Munson Steamship Lines (So vessels), intercoastal and Caribbean operator owned by Frank C. Munson & family. In 1925 Munson Lines bought four ships from the Board. It was supposed to have operated at a profit even in difficult 1930. Shipping men believed the Board would disregard the Munson plea...
Aboard the steamship Roma, Mrs?Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger returned to the U. S. from Nice, where a court had justified her killing her wealthy, elderly husband. Said she: "Sometimes I'm sorry that I am beautiful, considering; all the trouble I've had over it." During the interview Baby Charlotte screamed and Son Fred, 4. beat Grandmother Nash on the head with a paper horn...
...Steelman James Augustine Farrell wired good wishes to 87-year-old Capt. Robert Dollar of San Francisco who was too ill to attend. Despite these felicitations, many a Pacific shipper last week was angry at Steelman Farrell. From Hawaii to the Atlantic, via Panama, ply the steamers of Isthmian Steamship Co., United States Steel unit, pet & pride of Mr. Farrell who has sailed before-the-mast. Last week Isthmian ships, accustomed to return from Hawaii practically empty, contracted to carry James Drummond Dole's Hawaiian pineapples direct to destination at $10 a ton, $3.95 less than the route...
Died. Albert Earl Clift, 61, president since 1929 of Central of Georgia Railway and Ocean Steamship Co., onetime (1924-29) vice president of Illinois Central Railroad; after an operation for stomach ulcer; in Savannah...