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...Tugboat Annie in manner or language, little Captain "Ma" got her orders obeyed without profanity, spent her leisure embroidering and reading in her cabin. She took time out to bear two sons (one of whom died in boyhood), bore another on a steamer held fast in an ice gorge. She brought up the boys in her cabin, slipping easily from singing lullabies to snapping orders to her crew...
...Once Ma Greene steered the Argand through a cyclone to safe harbor. Once she quieted her passengers' panic when the swell of her boat exploded 40 quarts of nitroglycerin in a yawl tied to shore, caving in the boat's bulkheads and smashing cabin windows. Another time, with one of her sons in her arms, she barked orders that got her boat safely untangled after it had collided with another in a windstorm...
...World War I, Captain Ma and Captain Gordon had built up their Greene Line Steamers into a fleet of eleven boats in which they rode high on the war's shipping boom. But when depression came Captain Gordon was dead and Ma's two sons, grown to captains themselves, wanted to give up the business. Ma vetoed them. Instead of quitting she bought out the Greene Line's only competitor on the Louisville-Cincinnati run, waited patiently for better shipping weather...
...underground to hold the family "pitch" till nightfall. Inside they played on the long platforms of the subway stations, kept an eye open for the chance to steal a better sleeping space. Said one experienced moppet: "School? I got to get the seats ain't I? ... Ma goes home to do her work and sends me back to keep her place. Sometimes the women try to rush you. But they can't put it across me. I've got 'em beat...
...public buildings and loud with the riveting of further construction. There was talk of building a resplendent new capitol out in suburban Quezon City. The dining rooms and bars of a huge new jai alai palace were going full blast. So was the new, prophetically named Casa Mañana nightclub...