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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...