Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Defense Mediation Board, later on the War Labor Board. As mayor, he had put San Francisco's needs ahead of politics, had rammed through city purchase (for $7,500,000) of the Market Street Railway. He had been president, later board chairman, of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. for 18 years...
...employment. National income was running at the rate of $215 billion a year-a new record. Production lines were humming. There were no critical consumers' shortages anywhere. People were already getting used to such products of the postwar dream world as television and home laundries. One U.S. steamship company was ready to lay down the largest, most luxurious passenger ship in U.S. maritime history; the new Ford would soon be unveiled...
Soviet ships had been calling at U.S. ports ever since V-J Day, and nobody but customs officials and longshoremen had paid much attention to them. But last week, when the 10,000-ton Soviet steamship Chukotka tied up at a Jersey City pier and began loading $282,000 worth of industrial machinery (which had been licensed for export by the Department of Commerce), all hell broke loose...
...year-old Eileen Gibson, known as "Gay," they were forever resolved in the early morning of Oct. 18. Ninety miles off the coast of Portuguese Guinea, she was pushed through a porthole into the ocean -perhaps alive, perhaps dead-from a first-class cabin on "B" deck of the steamship Durban Castle. Eight days later, when the Durban Castle put into Southampton, detectives came aboard and arrested James Camb, a deck steward, for the murder of Eileen Gibson...
...second Sheets exhibition, which opened in Los Angeles' State Exposition Building almost simultaneously with the first, showed something of his range and of his success. On the walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...