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...news in island transport was being written by airlines rather than by the once-dominant Matson Navigation Co. Pan American carried 30,000 people to & from the mainland in the first nine months of 1947; United Airlines, 14,000 in the six months since it began to fly to the islands...
...told his men to ignore the C.I.O. pickets, and promised to supply crews to four struck Luckenbach ships. Some C.I.O. unionists apparently thought it was a phony beef also. When the Matson Navigation Co. rerouted its Matsonia from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Bridges tried to stop her from sailing to Honolulu. But members of the C.I.O. stewards' union loaded the passengers' baggage and the Matsonia, manned by Lundeberg's unionists...
...free and rich with opportunity, has always been a land to come to. Its emigrants could almost be counted on a few expatriate fingers. But out of San Francisco last week, on the Matson Line's Marine Phoenix, sailed a party of U.S. emigrants, bound for Australia. In the party were only 20 men (all ex-G.I.s who had been stationed in Australia), the Aussie war brides of twelve of them, and twelve children. But Australia hoped that many, many more U.S. veterans would follow this vanguard...
...Waterfront Employers Association. Shippers think that he had a lot to do with improving labor relations. During the war, when ulcers kept him out of uniform, he ranged the Pacific, unscrambling shipping problems. When A-H's President John E. Gushing decided to move over to the Matson Navigation Co. a month ago, Lapham was the logical choice to replace...
...summer Mrs. Liebes disconnects her phone for two months, returns to the trade in the fall with hundreds of sample designs for machine production by Goodall Fabrics. Among her present projects: designing stage curtains for prefab theaters that Henry Kaiser plans to ship abroad, working up fabrics to redecorate Matson luxury liners, for Consolidated Vultee's new 2O4-passenger airplanes, and for 1948 Ford and General Motors cars...