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...abnormal conditions in the shipping industry all over the world, as well as the cut-throat competitive reduction in freight rates, forced the failure of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co., better known as the "Ward Line." Liabilities of the Company are estimated at $2,000,000, with assets probably in excess of that figure. The principal trouble with the Company is that it cannot at present operate profitably. This has left it without funds to meet current obligations, and forced its bankruptcy...
...dollar was adopted by all transatlantic steamship lines in Paris as the sole standard for determining passage rates. Even British companies have forsaken the pound, and the Government-subsidized French line, La Compagnie Generate Transatlantique, refused to quote prices in francs to French people...
...brass band of the steamship Aquitania played The Star Spangled Banner, and Colonel George Harvey, retiring Ambassador to Grea Britain, walked down the gangplank onto Manhattan Island. He said a good word for Secretary Hughes' offer to participate in a solution of the reparations problem, a good word for his successor ?" Kellogg is the type of man the Britishers like"? and a good word for his black silk knee breeches?" They will be good to play golf in?say at Palm Beach this Winter?for they are not very thick...
...Adolf Lorenz, famed orthopedic surgeon: "Arriving from Vienna on the steamship Resolute, I discussed eugenics. I said that a man before he marries should know the character and health of his wife and should have known her well several years; that a man should be about eight years older than his wife; that I am unalterably opposed to marriage when the woman is older than...
...Line steamship President Harding with her sons Szeming (15) and Dedie (11), whom she is sending to an English school. Mme. Sze expects to remain abroad for a month...