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Last week very few people wrote about, read about or even talked about the other Florida. But a great many people lived in it. In downtown Miami, on the inner streets of Miami Beach, in many a haven of the sane which boasted none of their expensive fantasies, life was...
In the Hawaiian Islands, "sampan" does not mean what Noah Webster says it does. In Hawaii, it means a boat owned by an Oriental. Residents of Honolulu, now queasy over the Japanese crisis in the far Pacific, regard the islands' chief sampan nest at the fisherman's wharf...
Honolulu citizens have long declared that something ought to be done. Last week something was. At the fisherman's wharf, U. S. customs officers seized ten alien-owned fishing craft, announced that they would grab 70 more when they got in from sea. Reason: fraudulent registration.
Across Portugal and northwestern Spain blew a violent hurricane. In Lisbon's harbor it smashed ships, fishing vessels and a British flying boat, sank a Portuguese warship. Near Zumaya it blew a train off a trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock...
Commissars in charge of the aircraft, chemical, munitions, electrical, maritime & river transport, and fishing industries were warned to untangle production difficulties or get out. For Soviet bigwigs had discovered that "technical discipline" was not keeping pace with rising production quotas. Pig iron intended for spring steel turned unaccountably into stiff...