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...little point in having boat drills during that voyage across the Channel. "This ship is cradling eight-five thousand gallons of gasoline in her hold," he explained, "and the Boche channel subs may not want to play cricket with us." That was in Halifax, just before she left dock. One hour and a half before she was to reach Liverpool the man on the bridge spotted a red flare thrown from a fishing sloop. All hands rushed on deck to see what was up. It happened inside of three minutes: a submarine, taking its cue from the flare, dropped...
...quite a show. Last week, in a vast, high-ceilinged courtroom in Brooklyn, the scene was thrown on the screen for the jury. Duquesne was there, in the prisoners' dock; he looked at himself on the screen with interest. His gestures, especially the one with the imaginary rifle, brought a snicker from the audience. The other 15 defendants (17 of the 33 had pleaded guilty) had no such stellar roles as the trial rolled on and the case, unlike the movie, slowly proceeded. The U.S. had not yet learned from the trial how effective Nazi espionage...
...union presented The Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. of Kearney, N. J. with a contract containing, among other demands a closed shop which would force the company to fire any employee who, as long as the contract lasts, fails to pay his does on for any other reason, remain a member "in good standing." On July 8, 9, and 10, with the aid of the National Defense Mediation Board, all contractual disagreements were ironed out with one exception. The company refused to accept the union's demand for a closed shop, on the grounds that is "the right...
...State Department agent, waiting at the dock, whisked "Spy" Sebold to FBI headquarters. He turned over $910 and the microfilms to an agent, went on FBI's payroll at $50 a week. For the next three months he lived in a maze of instructions even more bewildering than those of Hamburg. A Mr. Price, became William Sebold long enough to set up and operate a radio transmitter (selecting a comfortable house in quiet Centerport...
...News Today. As the Potomac eased to the dock, the big, rosy-jowled face of Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson bloomed suddenly over the rail. Stentoriously Pa whispered to White House Secretary Bill Hassett: press conference immediately. The wharf slip was cranked up to deck level; the horde of sweating, shoving newsmen belched through a bottleneck of broad-shouldered Secret Service men and Maine State troopers, poured through a hatch, clattered down the companionway's 20 steps, found themselves, a little embarrassed, suddenly before the President...