BIG SHIPPING DEALS
BIDS FOR THREE PACIFIC LINES ?Tcsa Aiaocialioii—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, February U' (Received February 11, at 10 a.m.) Bids for three United States Pacific lines have been opened, and arc being referred to the Merchant Fleet Corporation for consideration. Two bids were received for the American-Oriental line of seven ships. The AdmiralOriental lines offered 670,357d0l 20 cents, while the business men’s syndicate from Tacoma, Washington, offered 690,903d01. Mr K. Dawson, on behalf of a Portia nd-Oregon Corporation not yet organised, offered 1,065,000d0l for tho Oregon-Oriental, and the Matson Navigation and the American Hawaiian Companies offered a joint bid of 1,981,775d0l 50 cents for the Americanustralian Orient Line, consisting of twenty-one ships. The Dollar Line telegraphed that it could not bid on the American-Aus-tralia-Orient Line under the Shipping Board plan of operation. It urged the separating of the Australian from the Oriental, Line, and asked that now specifications be prepared, so that it could bid on these terms.
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Evening Star, Issue 19788, 11 February 1928, Page 11
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159BIG SHIPPING DEALS Evening Star, Issue 19788, 11 February 1928, Page 11
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