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American Export Lines is a sturdy little concern whose sturdy little boats (none bigger than 9,350 tons) carry about a third of the freight (not including grain) between the U. S. and the Mediterranean. This is the second richest trade route in the North Atlantic, and American Export has no U. S. competitors for it. Hence it is in a better position than many other U. S. lines, made $643.000 last year with the aid of a Government subsidy of $1,479,000. Said Lawyer Kenneth Gardner who pleaded for the new airline before the House Post Office Committee...
Died. Lord Walter Runciman, 90, millionaire British shipowner, father of Walter Runciman who was onetime (1914-16, 1931-37) president of the Board of Trade; at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Lord Runciman ran away to sea at 12, became a peer at 85. His own shipping concern was the Moor Line of cargo vessels, though he was board chairman-of Anchor Lines...
Last year's apple crop was worth $108,000,000. The value of this year's big crop will depend largely on the export market. Hence that was the chief concern of Chicago's great apple meeting. As recently as 1930, 21,000,000 bu. of U. S. apples were exported, mostly to England. Later such tremendous trade barriers rose that exports fell to 6,000,000 last season. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a message outlining the 16 reciprocal trade treaties which concern apples. A blow to lope however was delivered by Fruit...
Meanwhile, impeccably dressed Grover Whalen returned to his comfortable duties as head of New York's 1939 World's Fair. Candidate Mahoney declared: "I am no man's man." Candidate Copeland sniffed: ''These shufflings do not concern me." Candidate LaGuardia, already Fusion's and American Labor Party's choice and still waiting for a friendly nod from the Republicans, said nothing...
...French attack, Lena discharged De Queslain as cured, left him to make his way with the retreating Bulgarians. When they next met, Lena had joined a gang of Albanian pillagers about to attack the village, explaining that she had done so in order to catch Serbian spies. Her main concern at the moment, however, was to manage his escape. But De Queslain, who still thought she was trying to put something over on him, argued so long that the Albanians had already arrived and begun their slaughter and rape before he could be convinced. Lena's next move ought...