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...fruit-jar maker, had been listening attentively to offers for the stocks by which he controlled the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, April 19). They knew, too, how for a mere $3,121,000 old Mr. Ball and his friend George A. Tomlinson, the Great Lakes ship operator, had bought that control from a Morgan banking group at the most spectacular auction in Wall Street history; how Mr. Ball had expected the Vans to make a comeback and how the two Cleveland brothers had died almost within a year of each other, leaving...
PIPE ALL HANDS-H. M. Tomlinson-Harper...
...freighter Hestia was unlucky because she was named after a goddess (of the hearth). She had run aground, collided with a Russian ship, caught fire. Now they were waiting off Celebes to replace a captain who had just died full of ominous mutterings. Into this Conrad-like setting Author Tomlinson introduces as main character of Pipe All Hands lean, elderly...
Thoreau-like Captain Doughty. Quietly, competently written, the result is a sea story consisting of gently anarchistic philosophizing, exact descriptions, a travelog plot, the flavor but not the vitality of Tomlinson's best books, Gallions Reach and The Sea and the Jungle...
...Pittsburgh Steamship Co., biggest steamship line on the Lakes, about half of whose 72 freighters were in Whitefish Bay last week. Second biggest line, with 47 ships, is Interlake Steamship Co., an affiliate of old & famed Pickands-Mather & Co., coal & iron. Notable among independent companies is the Tomlinson Fleet, founded in 1901 by Cleveland's crotchety George Ashley Tomlinson, 71, colleague of George A. Ball in the great Van Sweringen Deal (TIME, Dec. 14 et seq.), whose transportation interests were further enlarged fortnight ago when he became chairman of Missouri Pacific R. R. One of the 13 Tomlinson freighters...