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...Cleveland's federal court last week, survivors of the S.S. Noronic disaster and relatives of the 119 victims who died when the Great Lakes excursion steamer burned at a Toronto dock in 1949 were awarded $2,150,000. It was the largest settlement ever made to passengers in a marine disaster. Only twelve of 575 claimants, who originally sued for nearly $19 million, rejected the offer made by Canada Steamship Lines...
...Kuwait's loading dock at Mena al Ahmadi, which thrusts nearly a mile out into the Persian Gulf, is the world's largest...
Britain's most respected newspaper, the London Times, last week found itself a defendant in the criminal dock at Old Bailey. The charge: aiding & abetting corrupt practices during Britain's last election. Just before the election, the Times and other papers had carried, as an advertisement, a special report to stockholders by a group of British-Malayan tin companies which concluded: "The nation, let alone your valuable companies in Malaya, cannot survive if the worm of Socialism is permitted to continue...
Regular NROTC juniors and freshmen will embark on their summer cruise on July 18, the Navy Department announced Saturday. An eight-ship convoy, consisting of a battleship, a cruiser, and six destroyers, will carry the midshipmen to Europe, where they will dock at two as yet undisclosed ports...
...Kempel organized fishermen's and small farmers' cooperatives to pull their parishioners out of economic trouble. Father Walter Hogan's Institute of Social Order in Manila -one of five Jesuit labor-relations schools in India and the Philippines-has bucked Filipino industrialists on behalf of striking dock and airline workers (TIME...