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Good sequence: Woolley's last waif, the half-Jewish niece of a Gestapo agent, is brought to the dock for transshipment to the U.S. with the help of the Piper. She heils Hitler. Her Gestapo uncle reproves her. "Nicht mehr Heil Hitler?" she asks. "Nein," warns her uncle. "Gut!" says the solemn little girl...
...looked around the edges of the Mediterranean and made a startling claim: Rome radio said that the Queen Elizabeth and Valiant, 30,600-ton battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class, had been seriously damaged by the Italian Navy. More than that, said Rome, the Valiant was still in dry dock after six months of repairs and the Queen Elizabeth "will require some time before repairs are completed." Knowing that the Italians were fishing for news, Britain kept...
...Walter Leslie Forster. He had done such a job of smashing that "experts believe some of the oil wells will never produce oil again and it will be a long time before the Japs get any oil from the rest. At Rangoon we did what we could to destroy dock facilities. I doubt whether Rangoon has yet been used by the Japs...
...Francisco's 1934 dock strike West coast shippers-and then the whole U.S.-suddenly became aware of a gaunt, nervous man who talked with a cockney-like accent and abrupt gestures. He was fast gaining power over organized U.S. longshoremen. Australian-born Harry Bridges was wary, shrewd, and almost telepathically able to guess shipowners' moves before they were made. He led longshoremen with a dictatorial hand, rose to be named West Coast C.I.O. chief...
Relaxing after the ardours of the review just passed, a Mil Sci man, whose name has not been revealed for four of giving information to the enemy, was unlucky enough to lose his cap off the Weld Boat House dock in the middle of the quarter to six rush hour yesterday afternoon...