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...reduce the Embassy staff almost to nil, Mr. Bullitt being left alone with three officers. The Counselor of Embassy, professional brains of any diplomatic mission in which the chief is noncareer, has been Mr. Bullitt's good friend John Wiley who last week was transferred to Antwerp to be the U. S. Consul General...
...well-to-do shipping broker decided to go into business for himself. Backed by friends' money, he bought a dozen British freighters grown rusty in the Australia trade, reconditioned them as automobile transports. He installed high-speed elevators in his ships, similarly equipped his docks at Antwerp and Weehawken, N. J., carried nothing but uncrated automobiles, saved exporters up to $300 per car. As automobile exports from the U. S. mounted, Arnold Bernstein Line prospered mightily until he had a 65% monopoly in that branch of foreign trade...
...envy, did not really begin to worry until three years ago when he decided to go into the passenger business. From his 14 ships, all named after Saxon castles, he chose three of the biggest and best, had them rebuilt as combined passenger & automobile transports in the New York-Antwerp trade, with stops at Southampton and Havre. The 16,000-ton Königstein was equipped to carry 300 passengers, the 14,000-ton Ilsenstein and Gerolstein 180 each. All three could still carry 450 cars apiece as against the 600 they carried as freighters. When tourists found they could...
...Making her first trip from Antwerp under Bernstein ownership last week, the Pennland arrived at Hoboken without a single passenger aboard. Pending an agreement with the Conference, the line had refused to sell reservations, took a loss rather than start a rate...
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...