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...Pier F in Jersey City, dock workers were loading 26 big cases, marked "Used Industrial Machinery," into the American Export Lines' Executor. The twelfth case slipped from the loading fork, crashed six feet to the concrete floor, and split open. Trying to repair the case, cooper Raymond Grimm found inside a package holding 50 one-lb. tins of TNT. They were labeled "U.S. Corps of Engineers-TNT-For Front Line Demolition Only." Customs men opened 25 other cases, found a total of 65,000 lbs. of TNT. Later in a warehouse in The Bronx, New York City police found...
...trial's last day, Lipinski in the prisoner's dock had a visit from his son, with whom he chatted calmly until court convened. Then he stood to hear his sentence: death...
...last week, Canada's Communists and fellow travelers were trying to overrule Canada's government. In Halifax the freighter Islandside was loading general cargo, but 600 tons of ammunition and six crated aircraft destined for China lay on the dock. Members of the Red-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union would not man the winches to load ammunition. If the ammunition were loaded, C.S.U. men would not take the ship...
Harry Bridges' left-handed grip on Hawaii's sugar, pineapple and dock workers (TIME, Dec. 22) had never seemed tighter. He seemed coolly confident and was flexing his muscles for another wage fight with the planters and shippers next February. A vice president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, one J. R. Robertson, had gone out from San Francisco to stir up the shock troops and build up a $200,000 "war chest" (one day's pay a month from each of the I.L.W.U.'s 35,000 members...
Whatever he said after that was usually bad news for the prisoner in the dock. His words carried weight: he held degrees from Oxford and St. Mary's Hospital, London, was the author of The Medical Investigation of Crimes of Violence, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, lecturer on such subjects as morbid anatomy and forensic medicine at London's University College Hospital and St. Bartholomew...