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Just a boy at heart, Laemmle takes time off to watch the boats go by. "Just a short time ago I witnessed the unloading of a Japanese freighter in San Pedro Harbor," he writes. "The ship was discharging a vast cargo of meshed wiring which is manufactured in many sections of this country...
...This vessel is bound from San Francisco to Yokohama and Oriental ports with general cargo and one passenger. In all, there are 41 souls aboard, that is if those damn fools who go to sea can have souls. . . . Should this be picked up by a boy contemplating a sea career, let him ... go into the purser's department of an American company. After a surprising short time, by tattling on the ships' officers for breaches of decorum ... he will be moved into the main office as an assistant something or other to one of the 978 vice presidents...
...last-minute report to the President he declared that bids submitted for a dozen new cargo vessels were, so high that acceptance was out of the question. The bids averaged about $2,700,000 per ship, three times the cost in Britain. Since private shipping lines "simply cannot afford to build at these prices even with Government assistance," Mr. Kennedy explained, the only three practical alternatives were: 1) establishment of new shipyards; 2) allow building abroad when the domestic price was more than twice the foreign price; or 3) put the Government in the shipbuilding business, the "last resort...
Consternation reigned in a Brooklyn theatre last week. The leading lady in a revival of White Cargo had three beads on her scanties and one of her beads, it was discovered, had been sewed on by nonunion hands. Local 21313, Theatrical Costume Workers Union of the American Federation of Labor immediately threw cordons of pickets around the theatre for two nights. On the third night a settlement was reached. The settlement: the offending bead was plucked off, the part played thenceforth in two beads...
There is a promise of topical trippery when Don Ameche and Cesar Romero set off across the Atlantic in a plane loaded with a buoying cargo of ping-pong balls (a device actually adopted by Crooner Harry Richman & Aeronaut Dick Merrill; TIME, Sept. 14, 1936, et seq.). And there is a promise of native warmth when the plane plops down in the midst of peasant festivities in a Norse village. But neither promise is kept. Just as soon as they artfully can, the script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture...