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Walls of glass brick will throw some light on the highly-charged subject. Among the up-to-date equipment that will speed up the workings of the new giant is a huge travelling crane, installed under the roof, that will help to handle the ponderous atom-smashing apparatus...
...side of Havana's crowded harbor, the, massive crane that unloads the Seatrain stood stark and still. The Seatrain itself, a seagoing ferry that brings 105 loaded U.S. freight cars to Cuba weekly and returns them packed with Cuban freight, languished at its home berth in New Orleans. Cuba's belligerent dock workers, backed by the compliant Grau San Martin Government, had decided that the Seatrain was cutting them out of jobs...
Since the Seatrain started operating in 1929 the dock workers had watched with anger and frustration as the great crane plucked loaded cars from its hold and set them on the railroad tracks bound for Cuba's warehouses. Their countermove was a demand on Seatrain Lines, Inc. to hire one-third more stevedores and let them load and unload each car at Havana ("for customs inspection"). Result: by last week the Seatrain had stopped running...
Under the co-sponsorship of the Radcliffe League for Democracy and the Harvard Liberal Union, Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will give his analysis of current events tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Cabot Hall in the Radcliffe quadrangle...
...Crockett Johnson abandoned Barnaby last year, and Roy Crane gave up Wash Tubbs. Major Hoople, star boarder of Our Boarding House, did better after his creator Gene Ahern was replaced by a group of N.E.A. artists and writers...