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...They started their fortune in a penny-ante cigar factory in Vera Cruz, fattened it to $60 million by dabbling in banks, ranches, real estate, steamship lines. They also became Mexican agents for General Motors, customs brokers for the Mexican Government...
...last week Lieut. Redin seemed like a stranger all over again. He had been arrested on a Portland, Ore. pier, dressed in a sweatshirt and grey slacks, just as he was getting aboard the Soviet Steamship Alma Ata. The FBI had arrested him as a spy. He had been under "intensive observation" for months, said the FBI, which charged that he had "induced another to obtain plans, documents and writings relating to the Yellowstone, a U.S. destroyer tender." The information, it added, "was to be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, to wit: the U.S.S.R...
...Kern County. Irrigated, the desert blossomed with fruit trees and grape vines at Arvin and on a 5,000-acre ranch north of Delano. Since then, production has been the main business of the Di Giorgio Fruit Corp. In 1930, he sold out his prosperous Atlantic Fruit & Steamship Co., an outgrowth of Atlantic Fruit...
...decades of dutiful adventuring in business, Averell Harriman took flyers in foreign mines, in steamship lines, a motion-picture enterprise, and airlines. He stayed with none of them. His interest in Labrador retrievers and international polo-which he played with an eight-goal handicap-seemed more genuine...
Submarine Raider. Off New Brunswick, a whale surfaced alongside the steamship Keith Cann, hosed openmouthed passengers, submerged...