Word: luckenbach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look at four live I.L.A. operators. Big Frank Russo, a pier boss, admitted that he had received $1,400-plus an unspecified amount of "vacation money." Sullen, hulking Fred Marino testified that he was elected shop steward of local 327, denied earlier testimony that he had demanded that the Luckenbach Lines bar all cops and FBI agents from his pier. Anthony Delmar, Brooklyn pier boss, was sworn in while holding up his left hand, contributed little that was either sinister or helpful. Jerry Anastasio, one of the notorious brothers, spent 14 minutes on the stand. He sucked his tongue, picked...
...Mary Luckenbach, had listed so quickly and sharply to port that it had been impossible to get her boats away. She had sunk in less than half an hour...
...Cost. What had happened? Both the hospital ship's Captain Barton E. Bacon (who had been the last man off his sinking vessel) and the Luckenbach Line agreed that though both ships were equipped with radar, neither had been relying...
...there was also some evidence that the freighter, though outward bound, had been moving along the inward-bound channel. These were questions for the board of inquiry and the courts to decide; even before the inquiry was over the U.S. filed a damage action asking $14 million from the Luckenbach Line, accusing it of negligence. Among the government's accusations: Excessive speed, failure to sound proper whistle, failure to use radar or other navigational warning aids and failure to have proper lookouts on watch...