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...takes an efficient executive staff to run a business whose payroll at one plant alone has been as high as 104,000 persons, whose purchases have run as high as $40,000,000 per month and whose operations include coal mines, glass factories, steel mills and a fleet of 37 ships. Yet the Ford staff is small. All the key men in the company can sit down together at a lunch table in a maple-paneled corner room at the Engineering Laboratory where the elder...
With brief text (59 pp.), 208 photographs (mostly of the square-rigger Parma, on which he sailed in 1933), he tells the soon-to-be-historic story of the dwindling fleet that still annually rounds the Horn on the long passage from Australia to England...
...That fleet in 1921 numbered 140. Last year there were 20 left. Fourteen of them are the personal property of one old man, last of the sailing-ship owners. Captain Gustaf Erikson of the Aland Islands. He makes his fleet pay by carrying no insurance, paying no overhead, allowing no depreciation. The crews consist almost entirely of boy-apprentices, who pay to learn their trade and ''there are always more applicants than vacancies." Two girls signed on for last year's passage, but no women may sail with Captain Villiers again. Said he last week (when...
...maneuvered the collier Merrimac to Santiago's Harbor during the Spanish-American War, blew her up in an unsuccessful attempt at blockade;* after a brief illness; in Hillsborough, N. H. Rejected as a volunteer to man the Merrimac, West swam out to her as she was leaving the fleet, was dragged aboard...
Died. Edward Hillman, 45, head of Hillman Airways (London-Paris); of high blood pressure; at London. A homeless wanderer from the age of nine, a humble bicycle repairman five years ago, he developed a fleet of 200 motor coaches, an air fleet worth...