Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ships of the American Australia Orient Line, plying between San Francisco and Los Angeles and ports in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, China, Japan-sold to a joint subsidiary of the Matson Navigation Co. and the American Hawaiian Steamship...
...seven cargo vessels of the American Oriental Mail Line, which famed Robert Dollar has been operating for the U. S. as lessee-sold to the Tacoma Oriental Steamship...
...Steamship skippers, like horsemen and motorists sensitive to what they drive, say that a ship you are used to never feels quite the same after she has been handled a while by someone else. In the case of the S. S. Leviathan, the saying would hold specially true for a man who last handled her during the War, when her German name, Vaterlard, had just been erased and before she was remodeled to be the luxurious flagship of the U. S. Lines...
...depended on its earnings; it was "New England Investors' Bible," "as safe as Government bonds." J. P. Morgan & Co. controlled the road, the late Charles Sanger Mellen was its president. Ambitious to control all of New England's transportation, the N. Y. N. H. & H. bought trolley, steamship and other connecting lines at inflated values. Financial collapse of the N. Y. N. H. & H. followed. President Mellen was ejected. Later Edward Jones Pearson, able railroad operator, came in as president, while Howard Elliott, now chairman of the Northern Pacific, gave financial counsel...
Fares. Beginning Feb. 1, the North Atlantic Steamship Conference announced from its Paris office last week, first-class fares on ships like the Leviathan, Majestic and Maurentania would increase $7 between U. S. and Continental ports. First-class fares on the President Roosevelt, the France and ships of their class will not be changed. But for second-class passage on all ships the price mounts $5. Tourist cabin charges go up slightly...