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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Feb. 1 certain ships entering New York Harbor are allowed "radio pratique." This is the privilege of proceeding directly to dock without necessity of anchoring off Quarantine for medical inspection of passengers and crew. All a ship surgeon need do is to wireless his line's Manhattan office, twelve to 24 hours before docking, certifying that no cases of dangerous contagious disease are aboard. This message is relayed to New York Harbor's quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island. Chief Quarantine Officer Dr. Charles Vivian Akin then allows the ship to pass directly up the harbor, thus...
When time came last week for Dr. Grieshaber to ask for radio pratique, he decided that the fever and nausea among the Hansa'?, crew was the result of their inhaling hydrocyanic acid gas left in the hold when she was last fumigated against rats. No law required him to report this kind of accident to Chief Quarantine Officer Akin. So the Hansa steamed past Quarantine, docked, debarked 993 passengers. An inspector of the U. S. Immigration Service, Dr. Henry M. Friedman, went aboard for a look-round. What he saw in the crew's hospital sent him running...
Meanwhile it was being balanced and rigged by a crew of '"grips" (propertymen). Two were on the upper deck, one on the lower. Winch Operator Philo Goodfriend started his electric winch, slowly raised the magic carpet into the air-Ptt! one of the supporting cables snapped. Before there was even time for a warning shout the heavy platform had bumped 20 ft. to the ground, fatally crushing Winch Operator Goodfriend, hurting Propertyman Harry Harsha so badly he died in hospital a few hours later...
...Theatre stage, but Playwright Lillian Hellman's (The Children's Hour) cinema version enlarges the play's design, intensifies its mood, sharpens its implications. And Producer Goldwyn was smart enough to import the Geddes-Kingsley gang en masse, the whole dirty, ruthless, gay, heroic, nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T. B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly) again speak in the thickened explosives of New Yorkese, roast mickeys (potatoes) in street fires, harass the brass-buttoned doorman of the neighborhood...
...William S. Gubelmann (National Cash Register Co.). Joseph Conrad, older (1882), smaller (116 ft.), chunkier, was also a training ship-used by the Danish Government for 52 years. Three years ago Author-Adventurer Alan Villiers saw her in Copenhagen, heard she was for sale, snapped her up. took a crew of eight nationalities on a picaresque world cruise, wrote a book about it (Cruise of the Conrad), then sold the ship to 24-year-old George Huntington Hartford II. A. & P. (chain stores) scion. Both ships still carried age-browned canvas last week but their quarters have been luxuriously remodeled...