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...owner is Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, the Nourmahal is the Club flagship. Indeed the Astor interest in the sea is so great as to be almost exclusive of all else. Last week, going from pleasure to business, Commodore Astor acquired an important interest in the Roosevelt Steamship Co. From Southern waters, where he is cruising in his Nourmahal, he sent a wire, announced his intention of taking an active interest in the affairs of the line. Up to this time Vincent Astor has confined his business activities to buying and selling real estate-of which...
Sued for Divorce. Lewis Luckenbach, Vice President of Luckenbach Steamship Co.; by Mrs. Lillian Luckenbach; in Manhattan. Grounds: infidelity. "Preposterous!" said she to his offer to live both with her and with the corespondent, one Delia Louise Stone, at the same time...
...York radio stations suddenly stopped broadcasting and the air was filled with SOS calls. While radio listeners wondered what the silence might portend, there was administered in the outer reaches of New York Harbor what might be called perfect disaster treatment. It began when passengers on the British steamship Fort Victoria, inching along in the soupy mist toward Bermuda, heard the bedlam of fog warnings, the fierce, hoarse blasts of a whistle which seemed altogether too near. Then the prow of the Clyde liner Algonquin, outbound for Galveston, loomed out of the murk and buried itself with a mountainous thrust...
While the Italian freighter Leonardo da Vinci with a cargo of Renaissance paintings was being tossed in a heavy storm last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 23), the steamship Manuka, carrying a $125,000 traveling exhibition of modern British art to New Zealand, crashed in the fog on the rocks off South Island, near Australia, and broke up soon after the crew and passengers were removed. Among the shipwrecked paintings were two oils by Sir William Orpen, several water colors by Laura Knight, a collection of modern etchings by Frank Brangwyn and C. R. W. Nevinson...
...founded Bush Terminal, Inc., and began to build six small warehouses and a pier. When the big railroads ignored his tiny terminal, he called it to their attention by buying many a carload of hay in Michigan and sending it to himself via Bush Terminal. To impress on steamship lines the existence of his terminal, he hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal on an average day, and one-fifth of the freight handled in New York passes...