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...Cunarder Parthia, tied up at a Manhattan dock last week, had "hot cargo" in her hold. A.F.L. longshoremen put the label on 2,500 packing cases marked "Chatka, Fancy." The cases held 88 tons of Russian crab meat...
...official release from General Headquarters, ignored a GHQ ruling against revealing the arrival of new units until they were in action. After he filed, U.P. put out the story also. Said Handleman in self-justification : "I stand on what I file. If they had two bands down at the dock to meet them, I don't see where there's any further question of security involved...
...hour before this picture was taken, the confetti-speckled, 9,644-ton liner Excalibur, carrying 114 vacationers and 130 crewmen, steamed down New York Harbor, bound for a leisurely cruise to Marseille, Naples, Alexandria, Beirut, Piraeus, Leghorn and Genoa. Thirty-five minutes after leaving her Jersey City dock, the Excalibur collided with the Danish cargo ship Colombia in the Narrows below Manhattan. The liner, gashed from its deck to below the water line, was ignominiously tugged to the mud flats off Brooklyn, and its unhappy passengers wound up (via harbor tug) back in Jersey City. The Colombia...
...International Refugee Organization has ferried in 14,000 displaced persons. Next week five ships are expected to dock at La Guaira with 1,800 more. Special Venezuelan immigration offices abroad have helped other thousands to cross from Spain, France and Italy...
Like an overdose of champagne (or hemlock), it hits the underpinning of the economy first. Laboring men begin the Great Walkout - miners, fruit pickers, dock-wallopers, bus boys; by the thousands they quit their jobs, pocket their pills, and lam out for Florida. Short crops and short fuel send other thousands after them. The greatest holiday in history...