Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn 21, Baltimore...
...SONDHI Brooklyn...
Sandwiched between two barges carrying 40 loaded freight cars, the New Haven's tug Transfer 21 set out from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made...
...close-range work, shows objects 80 yards away, large objects even closer. It can "see" for 30 miles, but tugboats are seldom concerned with such distances. It costs about $12,000, may save much more on the barges that shuttle freight cars between New Jersey and the docks of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The New Haven and the Pennsylvania figure that radars on their 51 tugs may save $50-100,000 every foggy...
Branch Rickey (above left), owner and president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, confers with Varsity football coach Dick Harlow after both men addressed the Varsity Club dinner yesterday evening...