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...monopoly was broken, so was the political monopoly. Before World War II, island Democrats existed largely on the sufferance of Democrats in Washington, had a hard time holding rallies on outlying islands, because owners shut them out of the plantations. Now, under ex-Cop Jack Burns, the Democrats gathered steam, most of it from energetic Nisei, who remembered the sardonic, white-haired Burns and his aloha-style defense of the Japanese-Americans in the war's early days. In 1954, Hawaii's sclerotic Republicanism crumbled in the territorial legislature before the Democrats' thrusting new onslaught-But then...
...Named for an earlier Savannah, which was the first steam-powered ship to cross the Atlantic, sailed Savannah, Ga. to Liverpool in 1819 in 29 days...
Hard-pressed U.S. railroads figure their featherbedding bill at $500 million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though he does almost nothing. Each crewman draws a full day's pay for every 100 miles he covers (because that is the way it was done back in 1919); some collect up to 4½ days' pay for eight hours of travel time. Says the president...
...Many of the samples that lured Western businessmen also turned out to be junk, and others were not delivered in promised quantities. Orders of iron bars arrived with pockmarks of rust, textile bolts with lengths misstated, rice colored by bluing on the sacks. In Shanghai, 20 out of 31 steam turbines and 64% of electrical relays manufactured during one period were below standard, and one-third of the castings for electric motors were worthless. A whole shipment of electric generators had to be rebuilt at the factory because of "faulty cores." Canned goods, sometimes turned out by several different communes...
Wasted Whiskers. There is again much of the old nostalgia. Back on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Golden recalls, the old folks would mutter, "A klug zu Columbus'n" whenever a boy got a bloody nose or the steam was not hot enough in the Turkish baths. Rough translation: "Columbus should have broken his head before he discovered America." But there were consolations. "For 2^ plain" a lad could buy a large glass of clear Seltzer. Flavoring cost a penny more, but sometimes he could persuade the counterman to "put a little on the top" for nothing. Jewish...