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...Manchu art lent by the Chinese Government to the British Government for a great exhibition in London's Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 9). To return this priceless treasure, after it had been viewed by 422,048 persons, His Majesty's Government thriftily decided to use an ordinary steamship, the Peninsular & Oriental liner Ranpura, with a relay of naval escorts...
...marine over another this comparatively new element through which international commerce is beginning to flow, the air, should have careful consideration. There was a time when Yankee clipper-ships sailed the seas in numbers that were symbols of commercial prestige and potential naval power, but the advent of the steamship found America napping, and today most of our trade is carried on in foreign bottoms. If the United States does not soon establish a definite air-schedule across the Atlantic to Europe, she may very likely find herself again outclassed--this time by an air-minded Germany...
Died. John Harold Dollar, 48, son of the late great "Captain" Robert Dollar, vice president of the vast Dollar Steamship Lines; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
Last week the Ward Line, now operating as New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., offered to pay about 400 claimants against it an average of about $3,000 apiece. Of this $1,250,000 total, $890,000 would go to Morro Castle plaintiffs and the balance to Mohawk plaintiffs. In the case of the Morro Castle, which burned in September 1934 with a loss of 124 lives, about 80 suits have been entered for passenger deaths, 30 for crew deaths, 225 for personal injuries. Claims in the case of the Mohawk, which a few months after the first tragedy collided...
...Senator Vandenberg, who alone has vigorously opposed the canal, promptly took the floor, recapitulated the arguments against it: The Army's Board of Rivers & Harbors Engineers, which always passes on such projects, had refused its approval. Secretary Ickes' Public Works Engineers had also turned it down. Steamship operators did not want it. Much expert geological opinion held it would endanger Florida's water supply. It was the only great waterway job ever undertaken without the specific consent of Congress. Declared Senator Vandenberg: "There is not a scintilla of economic justification for going on with...