Word: shippers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Athina ("Tina") Onassis, 29, sued Shipper-Dealer Aristotle Socrates Onassis, 53, for divorce in Manhattan. She availed herself of New York's restrictive laws on divorce grounds to invoke the untidy one of adultery, named one "Mrs. J.R." as corespondent. To Tycoon Onassis, Tina's legal blockbuster came as a "surprise." For Soprano Maria Callas, 36,, for weeks in print as a friend of Onassis, and separated from Italian Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the suit triggered a quick conference with Onassis in Monte Carlo. Then Maria flew back to her villa in Milan, pleading innocence...
Last week the German press lifted the well-kept secret of the Hanseatic's financial backers, revealed that the Hamburg-Atlantic Line is 60% owned by Greek Shipper Nicos Vernicos-Eugenides, president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic carriers, and 40% owned by wealthy German Cigarette Maker Philipp F. Reemtsma. Vernicos and Reemtsma put up $2,400,000 of their own money, borrowed the rest from German banks, got the big Hamburg-American Line (which has 41 freighters, one passenger ship) to manage the Hanseatic. In a poll of transatlantic traffic, they discovered...
...week a young mother walked into the newly opened Rollins Charge-A-Car Co., put down $12 and rented a baby buggy for three months. In San Francisco a businessman was negotiating to rent two four-engined planes, worth $4,500,000, through Commercial-Pacific Corp. In Pittsburgh a shipper was dickering with National Equipment Leasing Corp. to rent a 15-tanker fleet costing $126 million. On land, sea and air there is a nationwide boom in equipment leasing, and rental companies are sprouting across the U.S. to supply everything from oil barges to a fleet of diesel engines...
...again appeared on the list of proposed chairmen, Democrats and Progressives in the Senate roared that Cummins was the enemy of the farmer and the worker. He had sponsored the controversial Esch-Cummins law which provided for high railroad freight rates, a law that was oppressive to the small shipper. His opponents charged that Cummins was the ally of the gilded railroaders, and the farmer's foe. They maintained that Cummins' reappointment to the chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission would give him a stranglehold on the farmer. After better than thirty ballots, the adversaries succeeded in replacing Cummins with...
...million Grace & Co., the No. 1 trader, banker, shipper, manufacturer and planter of South America's west coast, has itself invested $130 million in the U.S. petrochemical industry (TIME, Sept. 15, 1952). Grace explains that the company hopes to expand its chemical production into a hemisphere-wide operation. Meanwhile, Grace continues to pour into Latin American projects new investments that are expected to total $50 million...