Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harbor. On the shore he could see a variety of piers and warehouses, the steel and concrete state pier, used by fishermen and merchants, the black and sooty landings, piled high, for coaling, the brown and weather beaten stages where sailing ships once docked to discharge their cargo of cotton and whale oil. Somehow this sight always filled him with a feeling that the was a part of the past of New England, a deep-seated feeling that his love of the sea, indulged only like an amateur, was as much a vital part of him as the instinct...
Just a boy at heart, Laemmle takes time off to watch the boats go by. "Just a short time ago I witnessed the unloading of a Japanese freighter in San Pedro Harbor," he writes. "The ship was discharging a vast cargo of meshed wiring which is manufactured in many sections of this country...
...This vessel is bound from San Francisco to Yokohama and Oriental ports with general cargo and one passenger. In all, there are 41 souls aboard, that is if those damn fools who go to sea can have souls. . . . Should this be picked up by a boy contemplating a sea career, let him ... go into the purser's department of an American company. After a surprising short time, by tattling on the ships' officers for breaches of decorum ... he will be moved into the main office as an assistant something or other to one of the 978 vice presidents...
...last-minute report to the President he declared that bids submitted for a dozen new cargo vessels were, so high that acceptance was out of the question. The bids averaged about $2,700,000 per ship, three times the cost in Britain. Since private shipping lines "simply cannot afford to build at these prices even with Government assistance," Mr. Kennedy explained, the only three practical alternatives were: 1) establishment of new shipyards; 2) allow building abroad when the domestic price was more than twice the foreign price; or 3) put the Government in the shipbuilding business, the "last resort...
Consternation reigned in a Brooklyn theatre last week. The leading lady in a revival of White Cargo had three beads on her scanties and one of her beads, it was discovered, had been sewed on by nonunion hands. Local 21313, Theatrical Costume Workers Union of the American Federation of Labor immediately threw cordons of pickets around the theatre for two nights. On the third night a settlement was reached. The settlement: the offending bead was plucked off, the part played thenceforth in two beads...