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...N.M.U. called it limited war, applied it only to American-registry freighters and passenger ships (making up about 650 of the 1,350 in the U.S. merchant fleet). It excluded those that carry military cargoes, relief supplies and some economic aid. Ships with EGA cargoes could sail, the N.M.U. decreed, in cases where the Government labeled them "defense cargoes." Foreign-registry ships were free to come & go. Principal victims: U.S. passenger ships, just now gliding into the main rush of the annual tourist traffic...
...wage boost (the shipowners were offering 10%), a 40-hour work week at sea instead of the present 48-hour week, a company-financed kitty of 50? per man a day for vacation allowances. By this week, at least 36,500 men were on the beach, no-sail notices were posted in every major U.S. port. The way things were going, nearly half the U.S. merchant fleet would be tied...
Scrap-happy "A.P." early decided what his own role in the House should be. He would sail against the prevailing windbags. For 14 years, while party bigwigs huffed & puffed about Munich and the dollar gap, Member Herbert concentrated on unpretentious but warmly human legislation. Items: more lenient divorce laws, Sunday theater, uniform pub hours. It was not always easy. Introducing a bill could become an endurance test. He more than once "bumped," i.e., bobbed up & down, for four and five hours before he finally caught the Speaker...
...Pandora, Actress Gardner is a cruelly flighty American girl who drives men to distraction at a Spanish Mediterranean resort. She is also the very image of the Dutch wife for whose murder, four centuries earlier, Mason is doomed to sail the seas until he can find a woman willing to die for him. Omar Khayyam's moving finger, worked to the bone by Scripter Lewin, brings the two together during the brief interval (once every seven years) in which Mason's curse permits him to make port...
...times for senior week ticket sales have been changed to 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Robert P. Hyde '51, chairman of the Class Day committee, announced last night. The tickets are now on sale in the Lamont foyer; they cover the Senior thread, Moonlight Sail, and other Commencement week activities...