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Last week Arnold Bernstein, minor German shipping tycoon, bought the Red Star liners Pennland (16,300 tons) and Westernland (16,500 tons) from International Mercantile Marine Co. Price for the pair: $1,000,000. Probable use: New York-Antwerp cabin trade...
Arnold Bernstein Line will operate the Pennland and Westernland as German Red Star Line, will continue to operate under its own name the Königstein, Gerolstein, Ilsenstein...
...ships (1,017,000 tons) of foreign registry as against only five (74,000 tons) of U. S. registry, today the proportion is nine (120,000 tons) foreign ships to 35 (385,000 tons) U. S. ships and, Mr. Franklin testified, its nine foreign ships-Belgen-land, Pennland, Westernland, Minnetonka, Miunewaska, Norwegian, Nubian, Dakotian, Nitonian-were all for sale. (Two days later the Nitonian was sold.) Moreover on July 1 I. M. M. will lose its job as agent for White Star as a result of that line's consolidation with Cunard. Further facts brought out last week...
...trick: she got a doctor to show Dr. Einstein a sphygmomanometer. Inquisitive, he fiddled with it to see how it worked, had his blood pressure counted before he knew it. Examination showed Dr. Einstein no more unhealthy than the average sedentary person. But last fortnight, aboard the S. S. Westernland en route to the U. S., he felt unwell, was obliged to keep to his cabin one evening. When he reappeared next morning, visitors approached to ask questions. Dr. Einstein explored an egg, said nothing. Thereafter Frau Einstein had all she could do to shield him from strangers...
...officials of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J., whither the Einsteins were bound. When the Westernland entered New York Harbor it was met by a tugboat chartered by two of the Institute's trustees, Lawyer Herbert Maass and Edgar S. Bamberger, retired vice president of the famed Newark department store. With them they had a customs inspector, to get the Einsteins quietly off the ship. They had forgotten to bring an immigration officer. While they waited, news cameramen managed to snap the Einsteins-the Herr Doktor, bewildered, trying to shield himself by waving his violin case...