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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even as Santa Rosa tied up, Coast Guard and U.S. Senate investigation committees started inquiries into the cause of the collision. The main mystery: both ships were equipped with radar, each was aware of the other's presence-so what had happened? Grace Line officials charged that Valchem had suddenly turned into Santa Rosa's path. Valchem's skipper, Louis L. Murphy, 33, claimed that after his radar man spotted Santa Rosa from eight miles and "dead ahead," he changed course to pass port to port according to the Rules of the Road. Santa Rosa then apparently...
Along the waterfront of Poland's rubble-strewn Szczecin (formerly Stettin) towering cranes on six miles of rebuilt docks load and unload freight at the annual rate of 4,000,000 tons. In Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) bright new arc lights along the main streets have ended years of dim nights in the city's bomb-shattered center. After years of neglect, Poland's "western territories," the lands east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers taken from Germany after the war, are slowly emerging from postwar desolation...
...rhinoceros) come to another $600. If he brings his own firearms, a hunter may be able to get away with 30 days in the bush for $4,000. With photographic safaris pushing into the wilds, most Nairobi white hunters are now as expert with cameras as with rifles. Their main task is to stand ready to drop the beast if it should charge while the client is snapping a closeup. Says one hunter: "Frankly, we get a trifle bored...
...Three are gambling on continued demand for bigger, flashier cars by planning 1960 models that are longer, lower and wider-with new fin treatments. G.M.'s cars will be completely done over; the Ford, Edsel and Mercury will also be completely redesigned; while Chrysler is planning changes, its main emphasis will be on new interiors...
...Teller already has two suburban branches operating in Manhasset, L.I. and White Plains, N.Y., a third projected (in Millburn, N.J.), plus stores in Chicago, Cleveland and Boston. For the present, Hoving will double up on some advertising and promotional costs, knock out a wall or two to throw the main Bonwit store and Gunther-Jaeckel together...