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...exemplary trial. The Arab prisoner would be grilled by an Arab prosecutor. There were plenty of prosecution witnesses, already lamenting and smiting their breasts in the corridor. With an easy sauntering stride and a smile of contempt for the witnesses Prisoner Sheik Taleb Maraka entered, was escorted to the dock by an armed policeman...
That was clear enough. No one had any doubt that "a naval expert" was William B. Shearer and "three shipbuilding corporations" were Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., American Brown Boveri Corp., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., whom Mr. Shearer has sued for a balance of $257,655 on a claim of $308,885 for propaganda services (TIME, Sept...
...average steamer time from dock to dock, New York to San Francisco is 18 days, time between steamers in addition. True, we have 16-day delivery by Panama Pacific Line steamers, California, Virginia and soon the Pennsylvania, but sailing every 14 days, the average becomes much longer...
...cemetery was heavily picketed and guarded, but the strike was quiet. A sympathy strike of some 2,000 New York City cemetery workers loomed as a grim prospect. Fourteen local unions, dock workers, wreckers, barbers, window cleaners, pledged support to the cemetery men. Families who experienced or expected Death hoped for more active, if less grave gravediggers...
Just before one daybreak a mahogany-colored rumrunner with a wide white stripe just above the water line shot out from the shadowy Canadian shore. Within 100 feet of a Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield...