Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tony Stralla, defiant in a tan sombrero, angrily snorted that he had "enough food for a year" on board. He threatened to have the law on Attorney General Warren and his "pirates." While he stuck to his anchorage, far away in Washington large legal wheels began spinning. The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a quick measure, approved by U. S. Attorney General Murphy, making it a crime to operate a gambling ship under U. S. registry. Tony Stralla had an answer for that one. If need be, said he, he would fly the flag of Japan...
...NLRB in the G. M. elections follows a precedent laid down last week for employe voting in Chrysler and Briggs (bodies), Homer Martin's union may yet get a foothold. For, instead of holding the elections on a company-wide basis, as C. I. O. asked, the Labor Board called for voting plant-by-plant. General Motors, Chrysler and others thus would have to deal with C. I. O. in some shops, A. F. of L. in others...
...heavy owners of copper stocks, made big profits. While neutrality lasted so did speculators such as Jesse L. Livermore and Bernard Baruch. But speculative profits in commodities were reduced when the U. S. Government took control of prices as a war measure. Speculator Baruch himself headed the War Industries Board which fixed the prices...
Contesting a Bureau of Internal Revenue claim that he owes $87,893 in additional income taxes and penalties for the years 1933-35, bland, artificial-footed British Cinemactor Herbert Marshall took to the Board of Tax Appeals a number of disputed items. Among them: "Payment of $227.05 to prevent the publication of an unfavorable story...
...owners of the old whaleship John Carver formed American Whaling Company, sent a small "floating factory" to the Australian fisheries. In 1937 testy, Danish-born Hans J. Isbrandtsen of New York City (Isbrandtsen-Moller Co., shipping), founded Western Operating Corp. with the help of Norwegian-born Texas Corp. Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber, Danish-born General Motors President William S. Knudsen and others. For nearly $1,000,000 he bought the 12, 395-ton former U. S. Navy auxiliary ship Ulysses, converted it into one of the most modern whale refineries afloat and dispatched it to the world...