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...believe that the number of valves in the gas bags containing the helium had been diminished so as to save helium gas, which is expensive in money but which made the ship more dangerous to the crew...
...ship owners of the British Commonwealth are seeing snakes- not the pink snakes which consort with orange toads, purple salamanders and magenta tarantulas-but sea snakes with long green bodies, gliding through great billows of discontent with only their heads sticking out-heads with red hoods, with the flittering tongue of Trotzky and the penetrating eyes of Lenin...
...brief, they were confronted by an unusually noxious kind of snipping strike. About a year ago the wages of seamen were increased one pound a month. During the summer, ship operators declared that in order to meet world competition in the shipping business, they would have to make a reduction in wages of the same amount. The owners got together with the officials of the National Seamen's and Firemen's Union and the reduction was agreed upon. It looked like a peaceful settlement...
Along the ship's rails 2,300 passengers watched expectantly; there might be something interesting. Morris Hillquit, socialist, was there, very much interested in the strike procedure. Olga Petrova was there, expecting a good show. There was Mrs. William B. De Mille thinking what a great scene it would be for her husband. Onetime Senator Joseph Frelinghuysen of New Jersey looked on meditatively, calculating what political events might have developed if the strike had happened in Hoboken. There too was Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, wondering whether after all Trotzky had discovered a way of destroying the British mastery...
...liner. The tug's deck was crowded with roughly clad men. Were the strikers actually going to attack the leviathan? As the tug came alongside, a line was thrown to her. At last the passengers understood. The bootlegged crew, who had been hidden all night, clambered up the ship's sides and officers rushed them to their posts. The passengers began to cheer and slap each other's backs. "Hurray for the statue of Liberty...