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Stevedores sweated and loading cranes whirred in Los Angeles harbor last week as the warm dry hold of the Dorothy Luckenbach was lined with case after case of oranges all apparently blighted by a sickly pallor. When 7,500 cases were stowed aboard the freighter nosed out of the harbor on a fortnight's voyage to Manhattan...
...oranges were choice Valencias, tree-ripened to ruddy perfection. Ordinarily they would have spoiled during water transit without refrigeration. But shippers were not deliberately throwing away 7,500 cases aboard the uniced Dorothy Luckenbach: their ripe oranges were completely protected and preserved by a thin film of paraffin...
Sued for Divorce. Lewis Luckenbach, Vice President of Luckenbach Steamship Co.; by Mrs. Lillian Luckenbach; in Manhattan. Grounds: infidelity. "Preposterous!" said she to his offer to live both with her and with the corespondent, one Delia Louise Stone, at the same time...
...Castle Island, Panama, Lighthouse-keeper Hanna navigated a small boat flying the British ensign upside-down (sign of distress). Attacked by tooth and stomach aches, he had deserted his beacon, after swallowing all the medicine therein. The steamer Lilian Luckenbach sighted him, gave him ten pounds of assorted drugs. Thus medicated, Hanna resumed his post...
...once opened conferences in Manhattan with several of the bidders. The troubles-and they were to some extent anticipated-came from the small number of the bids and the inadequacy of the majority of them. It was disappointing to the Board that lines such as the International Mercantile Marine, Luckenbach, Moore and McCormack, Cosmopolitan, C. D. Mallory & Co., and the Barber Line did not make offers. The Board's ray of hope was that such offers as had been made would be improved by the bidders in the ensuing conferences...