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...acquired profitable new lines, Grace ruthlessly lopped off marginal old ones, including its longstanding coffee producing and wholesaling business. When Grace Lines slipped into the red two years ago, Peter Grace unsentimentally sold off eight ships and slashed administrative and maintenance costs. Last year the 26-vessel line was back in the black-but Wall Street rumor continues to insist that Grace would sell it, given the right offer...
Szigeti's reason for choosing the violin as his vessel is "the irrational pleasure that communication gives: communication that transcends the barriers of language, of nationality, of race." And he feels that other performers are attracted to the arduous profession for the same reason. Szigeti was made conscious of the rigors of communication because he had to translate everything from the relatively useless Hungarian of his youth. For him, the translation from written notes to sounds is entirely analogous. And it allows him to communicate with whomever he encounters en chemin...
Such petty considerations do not dismay the crew or trouble the captain's mind. When the vessel somehow gets under way, Captain Foglemayer-the customer can tell he's the captain because he wears a gold-braided hat and keeps rolling two ball bearings around in his hand-calmly goes below with his broad, a slinky brunette named Virgie (Carolyn Jones), not forgetting to give the crew their instructions: "Fatten the hatches...
...more days, Jarrell spun out his yarn, embroidering it with hints that the vessel might even be the mother ship of a vast fleet of coastal rumrunners. When rivals found nothing but salt water, and questioned Jarrell's story, the Trib replied by comparing him to Christopher Columbus. "It has been the lot of the pioneer ever to find on his return from a successful quest that those who remained at home the while were seeking to belittle his discovery," said a Trib editorial. But even the Trib was getting nervous. Jarrell left the office, sent back a messenger...
...Savannah is the namesake of the 320-Ton vessel that in 1819 became the first ship to cross the Atlantic with the aid of power, going from Savannah to Liverpool in 29 days 4 hr., using a 10-h.p. steam engine to supplement her sails...