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Southwestern roads have been calling for l.c.l. freight at the shipper's door, delivering it at the consignee's door for two years. Store-door service has been widely used in New England and the South, is standard service in Britain and eastern Canada...
...police caught seven hoodlums vigorously banging sawed-off billiard cues against plate glass and fixtures, hurriedly releasing crates of fowl at the market of S. S. & B. Poultry Corp. The hoodlums were arrested, arraigned for trial last week. Soon the S. S. & B.'s proprietors - Hyman Blank, Samuel Shipper and Samuel Weiner, whose business had already been chased out of the Manhattan poultry market by gangster terrorism - went to District Attorney Samuel Foley of Bronx County, told him they preferred to have the case dropped. Clearly they had been intimidated by the racketeers. "What do they think...
...finance bureau. At Kingfisher College (Okla.), when he was graduated in 1905, he was a stout footballer. A Rhodes scholarship and St. John's College, Oxford, brushed up his rough spots. Last week he was happy to receive the approval of President Hoover, many a politician, many a shipper...
Immediate cause was the hapless fate of U. S. Lines. This consists of the following ships: Leviathan, George Washington, President Roosevelt, President Harding, America, Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader, Importer, Exporter-also two fine vessels abuilding in Camden, N. J. As everyone knows this fleet was spectacularly purchased from the Government in the boom of 1929 by Banker Paul Wadsworth Chapman who proceeded to sell stock to the public on patriotic grounds. But in days when no Atlantic fleet makes any money to speak of, and with Britain's greatest Royal Mail losing millions, the prospects for an American...
...president of U. S. Lines, the man who got Banker Chapman of Chicago into the shipping business, who has been running U. S. Lines for him for two years, and who now is on an indefinite leave of absence. But last week Steamship Row was inclined to bet on Shipper Franklin against all comers, especially if a means could be found to reconcile him and Banker Chapman by giving the latter a stock interest in a new company run by experienced...