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...part of its program, the Maritime Commission had slashed the wartime limit of 900 passengers for each ship to 600 and added recreational facilities. The nine ships are the Ernie Pyle, Marine Tiger, Marine Jumper, Marine Shark, Marine Carp. Marine Marlin, Marine Flasher, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch...
...years ago the S.S. Marine Flasher put into New York with the first postwar group of Europe's displaced persons. Their entry had been eased a little, but not much, by presidential directive. Since then only a corporal's guard-some 36,000-of the continent's driven D.P. army of 900,000 have been permitted to push past the gates...
...Maritime Commission's Marine Flasher docked in New York last week, some 300 passengers emerged sizzling. They promptly fired off a petition charging that the ship was, in effect, a floating flophouse. Yet the Maritime Commission made no move to withdraw the Marine Flasher or six similar troop-type ships from Atlantic passenger service. It knew that its ships were substandard but it kept them operating only because transatlantic ship space is so scarce...
Sweden's burly Premier Per Albin Hansson has been called "the Swedish Roosevelt." Swedes call Franklin Roosevelt "the American Hansson." Actually the two are not much alike. Franklin Roosevelt is a liberal aristocrat, estate-owner, stamp-collector, smile-flasher, compleat angler, statesman both in profession and profile. Premier Hansson looks like a cross between a pixie and a professional wrestler. He is of humble stock, self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin...
...crossing six miles east of Toledo, the N. Y. Central's famed 20th Century Limited collided at 75 m.p.h. with a truck tractor and semitrailer owned by Sentle Trucking Co. The railroad promptly sued Harvey H. Sentle, declaring that his driver had been negligent since the railroad operated flasher warnings at the crossing. The driver retorted that he stopped at the warning, but neither saw nor heard the train until he was almost across the tracks, when it hit him. Railroads have won similar judgments before, and the Common Pleas Court decided in favor of the N. Y. Central...