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...that "I felt heartily ashamed of [our] comfort [while] our combat units, replete with Spam, [were] contesting with the cold and the mud." Yet even air intelligence officers had their share of bombs to duck, their jobs to do. Off the Salerno beachhead Major Sheean's ship, the Ancon, stood up to 19 German bombings in one day. Beyond Salerno itself a sudden German ground thrust nearly caught Major Sheean asleep, forced him to evacuate in such a rush that "my rare and wonderful air mattress" had to be left behind. Later, disgusted by the effects of "neoFascist" Churchillian...
...plotted to start a scrap, cause arrests, then seize the Convention, Joe showed another glimpse of red underwear by roughly quashing an attempt to have him and other officers investigated on charges that there were Communists in the union's high places. Waiter Joe Doyle* of the S.S. Ancon, proponent of the resolution, asked for a trial board of outsiders, with one Daily Worker Red on it. No support came from the floor. From the chair: "This resolution is designed for one purpose-to smash the N.M.U." Doyle replied that its sole purpose was to get to the bottom...
...August 15, 1914-the end of eight years' struggle during which Dr. William Crawford Gorgas licked yellow fever and General George Washington Goethals' 50,000 ditch diggers licked 200,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock-the day the Panama Railroad's steamship Ancon made the first transit from Atlantic to Pacific...
Last week when the Ancon made an anniversary trip through the Canal, 155,131 merchantmen of all nations had made the transit carrying more than 500,000,000 tons of cargo, paying an average of $4,000 each, grossing the U. S. $465,000,000 in tolls on an investment of $366,650,000 in ditch digging...
Last week a Federal judge in Ancon, C. Z. directed a jury to dismiss, for insufficient evidence, the first count?that Publisher Rounsevell had compared Colonel James V. Heidt to Adolf Hitler, in an editorial intimating misuse of company funds...