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Down the Queen Elizabeth's gangplank and on to Manhattan's Pier 90 one day last week the British movie industry stepped. Waiting on the dock, like a stack of plump pillows at the end of a laundry chute, stood a half-dozen U.S. movie executives. As Cinemogul Joseph Arthur Rank saw them, he blinked and turned up his coat collar against the chill May morning. But then Arthur Rank's face broke into a smile. He strode forward. As the expectant executive smiles faded, he walked over and wrung the hand of Judge Lewis L. Fawcett...
...great-nephew of Lewis H. Lapham and George S. Dearborn. Starting with a fleet of windjammers, his grandfather and Dearborn had built A-H into the biggest U.S. intercoastal steamship line. New President Lapham knew that his job was no sinecure: "I'm being thrown off the dock to see if I can swim." West Coast shipping men were betting that he could...
...quickly applied the full power of his 205 pounds and propelled his sinking craft toward the Weld Boat House. When he had arrived at a point six lengths and a summons from the dock, the undergraduate saw the wherry settle completely. Undismayed, he towed it to the opposite shore...
...cotton shipper and took the business away. New Orleans shippers talked about snatching it back, but nothing much came of the talk until Governor Sam Jones in 1940 appointed a chunky cotton merchant named Edward Oswald ("Archie") Jewell to boss the Board of Port Commissioners (the "dock board''), which operates the 7½ miles of publicly owned quays and warehouses...
Needed: A Canal. But Jewell and his fellow citizens won't be satisfied till New Orleans rivals New York, to which it is now a poor second in dollar volume, fourth in tonnage. They argue that its loading facilities are the most efficient in the land; ships can dock without tugs and a ton of freight can be loaded for $1.03, compared to $1.66 in New York...