Business: Biggest Pool

Some new, some old, some beautiful, some needing paint, some for Senators and cinemaqueens, and some which the rats love; in all 181 seaworthy vessels came together last week under one flag.

But the flag has not yet been made of bunting; it consists of ink and paper, constitutes not a merger but a pooling, a combination—the greatest in U. S. history. Involved in the deal are the Dollars, Kenneth Dawson, Paul Chapman, the Fleishhackers, P. A. S. & Son Franklin, Kermit Roosevelt, and a name famed on the seas but hitherto negligible in...

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