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...Garson a $74 silver cigaret box. Another thought the wife of F.D.R.'s Chief of Staff William D. Leahy rated a $2,516.75 jeweled bracelet. Eleanor Roosevelt, for launching a light carrier, was given a tray, a photo album and warstamp corsage, altogether worth $553.50. The Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. at Chester, Pa., honored 252 women most handsomely; $750 was the least it ever spent on any one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Baubles | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...super-seniority" - meaning that an honorably discharged veteran is entitled to his old job, or a similar one, with his old company for at least a year, even though it means firing an employe with greater seniority. Thus, when Welder Fishgold was laid off from Brooklyn's Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. for ten days, while nonveterans with more seniority were kept on (TIME, June 18), Selective Service backed him in the first court test of super-seniority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Soldiers' Pay | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...such thing, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If this version of super-seniority is carried out, the Union predicted, employes in many a shipyard and U.S. plant, including World War I veterans, will have to be fired to make way for veterans. Example: the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pa. has 19,000 former employes in service. Yet cutbacks have shrunk its payroll down to only 7,000 workers, some with 20 years' seniority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Soldiers' Pay | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Commodore Worrall R. Carter, the bald, bony-faced commander of Service Suadron 10, had six types of naval repair ships at Ulithi (one for radio and radar alone). His flotilla included a drydock for destroyers, tenders to make emergency repairs on big ships like bomb-blasted Franklin, Ticonderoga and Intrpid. He claimed that Ulithi's water-taxi service, which ran between ships and shore was the world's largest - more than 400 small boats manned by more than 1,000 coxswains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Mighty Atoll | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

McCain would follow his opposite number, 58-year-old Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, into drydock. Last week "Pete" Mitscher, who commanded Task Force 58, brooded at a Washington desk. The middle of next month he takes over as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Big Stir-Up | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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