Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deferred payment of national card plans, restaurants in some cities have banded together to form their own credit plans; in Seattle, 15 restaurants have thus managed to reduce costs and arrange for immediate payments from cooperating banks, have even got 94 other merchants to join them. The major transatlantic steamship lines are thinking of issuing a card, something like the air-travel card, that would cover passage and shipboard purchases. Oil companies, which have offered oil and gas on credit for years, are now offering a whole new line of credit possibilities. Mobil cards can be used for car repairs...
Typical of their frustration is the case of the Panamanian-based Mayan Line steamship company. Under the 1952 ruling, Mayan went into two U.S. courts in Louisiana with a $668,000 claim against Cuba for unpaid shipping charges, and won uncontested judgments in both. When defectors sailed a Cuban freighter into Norfolk harbor in 1961, Mayan was ready, attached the ship and its cargo of sugar bound for Russia. But the Czech embassy, caretaker for Castro in Washington, invoked sovereign immunity. The State Department assented, and the attachment was thrown out. (Backing up the doctrine was an informal agreement between...
Floating Golf Game. Semi-retired now, Sobel's latest venture is a kind of floating golf game-a driving range on the deck of Eastern Steamship Lines' S.S. Ariadne, a cruise ship that tours the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Last week, feet spread to counteract the roll of the ship, he watched sadly as middle-aged duffers hooked and sliced into a net-and-canvas trap. "I've never seen so many different ways of hitting a golf ball," he sighed. "Nobody seems to do it right any more. Why, just the other...
...hard-surface tennis courts running full tilt, and two deluxe cottages, appropriately called Wimbledon and Forest Hills. The Tennis Ranch is operated as a private club, and among its members are such notables as Procter & Gamble President Howard Morgens and Alaska Steamship Co. President David Edward Skinner. Five-day clinics for couples who want to perfect their mixed doubles game are held eight months a year, and the couples are expected to play tennis five hours a day. "We compensate by giving them breakfast in bed, a sauna bath and a massage," Proprietor John Gardiner says...
...phony ads. As one safeguard, the I.L.P.A. demands that ads be confined to goods and services within reach of the papers' readers Over the last decade the I.L.P.A. has expelled 16 papers for improper advertising: a jewelers' union paper, for example, which ran ads for yachts and steamship boilers. It has also effectively ended another racket in which a bogus labor editor solicits ads from businessmen too scared to protest, then pockets the cash...