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Greying Arnold Bernstein, 47, son of an oldtime Saxon shipper, served with distinction as a German artillery officer during the War, was decorated with the Iron Cross, First Class. Back in Germany after the War he evolved the scheme of fitting modern freighters with automobile elevators so that U. S. cars could be exported to Europe uncrated and unscratched. So successful was this that Bernstein "floating garages'' have long carried over 60% of all U. S. automobile exports, made enough money for sole Owner Arnold Bernstein to allow him to buy out the American-Belgian-British Red Star...
...practice the basic principle on which Standard Oil achieved its power- buy out competitors at pistol point or destroy them if they refuse to sell. Monopoly of oil was his objective almost from the start. The pistol he used was the secret rebate, the notorious device by which a shipper got a refund on his railroad freight, enabling him to undersell competitors. Rockefeller carried this one step further by bludgeoning the railroads into giving him not only a rebate on his own shipments but also a cash kickback from the freight paid by competitors. Thus if the rate...
...finally re-exported 1) to foreign countries or 2) to the U. S. by paying duty in the ordinary way. The various operations that can be performed in the free port are called "manipulation," since by the terms of the law "manufacturing" is forbidden. Until now, if a shipper wished to "manipulate" arriving goods before re-exporting them, he had to take them through customs, pay the duty, take them back through the customs and wait for his 99% refund...
...cocoa market. Because they are better informed than anyone else on the important West African crop, British traders have been known to take U. S. speculators for a fast ride. Last week cocoa men were passing around a story that United Africa Co. Ltd., greatest single trader and shipper on the British Gold Coast, was depressing the market so that it could buy its beans from the native tribesmen at lower prices...
...Gladys Luckenbach; from her third husband, Lewis Luckenbach, onetime vice president of Luckenbach Steamship Co.: a suit for separate maintenance; in San Francisco. Grounds: cruelty, constant drunkenness. According to friends' testimony, Shipper Luckenbach drank only moderately, "about 15 cocktails daily...