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Like many another labor dispute, the row on the California docks started over a seemingly small matter. At issue were the bargaining rights of nine "walking bosses" (stevedore foremen) of the Luckenbach Steamship Co., oldest U.S. shipping line and second largest intercoastal carrier. But as seven ships tied up at San Francisco docks and two in Los Angeles, the crews walked off. Luckenbach's California service, which carries some 90,000 tons of cargo a month, was paralyzed...
Portrait In Black (by Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts; produced by David Lowe & Edgar F. Luckenbach) quickly lets the audience know that the San Francisco shipping magnate, Matt Talbot, didn't die the natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed...
...Wonderful." By week's end the new life had become pleasant routine. Mrs. Isabella B. Luckenbach, wife of a lieutenant colonel in Berlin, glowed with approval of her big, ten-room house in suburban Dahlem. Said she: "Naturally I'm going to fix things the way I like, but all in all I think it's wonderful. . . . I guess the biggest surprise was the plumbing. I always thought continental plumbing wasn't up to our standards. But we've got the grandest tile bathrooms in this house -three of them-one on each floor...
While operating out of Queenstown, protecting conveys and individual ships, with the aid of the destroyer "Fanning," Captain Barker's ship captured the German submarine U-58. The two ships then drove an attacking sub from the "J. L. Luckenbach...
Last week, American-Hawaiian and Luckenbach Steamship companies, largest and most potent in the conference, indignantly withdrew. They hoped that the U. S. Maritime Commission, having failed to persuade intercoastal lines to regulate their own rates, would end throat-cutting for all time by exerting its power to fix minimum tariffs, which dates back in 1933 but has never been exercised...