AMERICAN SHIPS
OFFERS FOR THREE PACIFIC LINES Washington, February 10. Bids for the three United States Pacific lines have been opened and referred to the Merchant Fleet Corporation for consideration. Two bids were received for the American-Oriental Line, of seven ships. The admiral of the Oriental Lines offered 670,357 dollars 20 cents., while a business men’s syndicate from Tacoma (Washington) offered 696.903 dollars. Mr. K. Dawson, on behalf’of a Portland (Oregon) corporation, has not vet organised his offer of 1,065,000 dollars for the Oregon, Oriental, and Matson Navigation Lines, but an American Hawaiian syndicate is reported to have offered 1.981,755 dollars for the American-Australian Orient Line, consisting of twentv-one ships. The Dollar Line telegraphed that it could not bid on the American-Aus-tralia Orient Line under the Sliippin ,T Board's plan of operation. It urged scnarat'nc’ the Australian from the Oirentnl Line, and asked that new specifications be prepared, so that it could bid on these terms.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 115, 13 February 1928, Page 8
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156AMERICAN SHIPS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 115, 13 February 1928, Page 8
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