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...Orleans, chief banana port, came rumors that U. F. C. had bought the Cuyamel Fruit Co., second in the field, operating eleven ships, large landowners in Honduras and Nicaragua. Combined assets of the two companies would exceed $250,000,000. Independent still would be the Standard Fruit and Steamship Corp., founded and largely owned by the Brothers Vaccaro of New Orleans...
With neutral shipping at a Wartime premium, Denmark's Plum created Det Danske Transatlantiske Dampskibs-Sels-kab (Danish Transatlantic Steamship Corp.). Part of the huge profits he used after the Soviet Revolution to finance the anti-Bolshevist campaigns of "White Russian" General Yudenitch and Admiral Kolchak. Their failures cost him dear. In 1924 his Trans-Atlantic Corp. crashed for a stupendous loss to shareholders in which the Danish Landmansbank alone dropped 200,000,000 kroner ($53,600,000). Incensed, the Danish Government started to probe Plum...
...Oglala" has had an interesting history. It was first built in 1907 as a passenger and freight boat for the Eastern Steamship Lines, but at the opening of the World War it was converted for wartime...
...Hapag" the Germans gaily call that steamship line more sedately known as Hamburg-Amerikanische-Paketfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft...
...some-unknown reason, notification to the book store of the failure of the storics to gain the approval of the customs critics was extremely delayed. The books arrived at New York via the steamship France on August 29, but no word was received by the Phillips Book Store concerning the fate of their order until yesterday...