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...Federal Shipbuilding and Dry dock Co.'s vast yards in Kearny, N.J., labor and management came to an impasse over a matter of policy. Wages, hours and conditions of work had already been settled or were not a matter of serious dispute. For promising 0PM to forgo strikes for a year, C.I.O. shipyard workers demanded a "union shop." Federal, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, rejected the point on principle, stuck to Big Steel's long insistence on the open shop, turned down a Defense Mediation Board's compromise...
...annual Miles River Regatta, held off St. Michaels, a crabbing port on Maryland's Eastern Shore, is as plain as an old scow. Yachtsmen have been known to row up to the dock in their underwear, wander into the best pub in town wearing pajama pants and a battered silk hat. Ashore, some 5,000 folks loll around in shirt sleeves, suck Popsicles, guzzle beer, chase small fry who get lost in the crowd...
...Buffalo dock workers would lose their jobs. A New Orleans representative said the project would damage the South's biggest port...
...morning of June 6, when the Monterey entered the sunny harbor of Papeete, Tahiti, General Brunot appeared on deck in the blue uniform of France. An antiquated French airplane droned over the ship and dipped its wings. At the dock Joan Fontaine saw General Brunot received by two khaki-clad companies of native troops. A band broke the tropic stillness with the Marseillaise and Joan Fontaine, thinking of the France that was, could not help crying...
Last week a third trial was just getting under way; the jury was still being picked. Into Conroe courthouse, into the courtroom strode W. S. Cochran, landowner, husband of the woman White was accused of raping. Up to the prisoner's dock marched Rancher Cochran. He aimed a pistol at White's head, fired. The Negro dropped dead...