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...their portrayal of the shabby, menacing beauty of U.S. cities (there is a breath-taking street view of a Los Angeles rooming house in Doubloon) and 2) in the minor players who, with only a minute or so to make their points, impersonate, with passionate proficiency, the deep-sea fish of the underworld...
Most everyone knows one fact about tugboats: a good tugboat man can hurl a torrid phrase across the water hard enough to make it bounce. But few know another important fact: that the Dutch had a virtual monopoly before the war on deep-sea towing...
...Indies for the Netherlands Government. To shrewd President Moran, the job is more than a pay haul across the Pacific. It will give him a chance to gauge his financial chances of beating the Dutch at their own game, at their expense, before the Dutch and British get their deep-sea tugs operating again, full steam...
...Moran has his eye on six more deep-sea tugs that the Maritime Commission has put on sale. If Operation Netherlands is a success, Ed Moran thinks he might buy them, have a fleet powerful enough to take on all comers...
...strike had started over money. Fish prices had skyrocketed and so had profits. Some boat owners, by union reckoning, were making as much as $300 on a shareholding of $500. But deep-sea crewmen, who got only about $1,000,000 (some $2,000 apiece) of a 1946 gross running between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000, wanted a fatter slice...