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...from the sea and rushed them beachward; they returned immediately to find the City of Savannah and Monarch of Bermuda in the vicinity and later the Andrea F. Luckenbach and from then on they picked up the survivors and turned them over to the liner by the boat load. The surfboats cannot hold more than 20 persons without foundering...
Curtis-Martin published the Inquirer along with their Public Ledger and Evening Ledger for four years, but the Philadelphia newspaper seas were heavy. Last spring Publisher Martin, who had already cut loose one of his stepfather-in-law's newspapers (New York Evening Post), tried to trim his load further by merging the Inquirer and Public Ledger (TIME, April 16). Last week he abandoned ship. The Inquirer, combined with what is left of the Public Ledger, will be taken in tow again by the Elversons as salvage for the notes which profits evidently...
...Alaska Steamship Co., aware that not more than two round trips could be made to Nome before the Arctic winter clamped down, cut rates on food and building material in half. Luckiest break for Nome, however, was a Lomen boat which had just come down the coast with a load of reindeer meat destined for Seattle...
...summer of 1928, he got not only a good automobile but also some $60,000,000 in debts-largely in the form of 6% Dodge bonds in the hands of the public. Even for Chrysler Corp., with its assets then of $226,000,000, that was a heavy load. So Mr. Chrysler, who was expanding lustily in almost every direction at the time, set to work to reduce the debt he had assumed...
...notable feature of the trip was the dropping of a large load of supplies on July 24th, put up in boxes, from airplanes flying about 1000 feet above the surface of the snowfields. Of the 1200 pounds of food dropped only two small boxes containing peas were lost and none of the other food was injured in the least Washburn said that the force of the box as it hit the snow, instead of burying it many feet, merely caused it to throw up a wide crater in the bottom of which could be found the box, sunk less than...