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...tough segment of U.S. labor was out of hand. Last week the nation's merchant fleet was tied up tight, the nation's ports were dead. This week there was some reason to expect a settlement of the biggest maritime strike in history, but only on labor's terms. The little moral authority which the Administration had left was wrecked...
American womanhood had never struck so rich a bonanza as during the wartime expansion of the U.S. merchant marine. Superstition of the sea had busied thousands of nervous feminine hands with the christening of ships. And after smashing her bottle, each ship sponsor took home a souvenir gift. Some of the trinkets would have lit fire in the eyes of a Follies girl...
Last month gunmen began spreading their shots. One night as he drove home to suburban Miramar, Sugar Merchant Julio Lobo Olavarria, one of Cuba's richest men, was wounded by gunfire from a passing sedan. Lobo denied having refused a $50,000 shakedown demand...
With the Kaiser-Liberty ship bonanza, the government went into the shipping business full time. It was a temptation at the outset to attach the Merchant Marine training program, already under government control, to an expanded Merchant fleet, constructed under government expense, in a nationalized Merchant Navy along the lines of the British scheme. The fearsome prospect of financing a gigantic post-war merchant marine with pre-war deficit-subsidy black magic was like nursing an infant until it was in long pants. The problem of training personnel, of maintaining close supervision over shipping movements and dispositions, would have been...
...looked to the shipping companies for aid and solace in the face of the most imposing rival their organizations had ever faced--the government. The fine hands of the potent labor lobby and the equally powerful shipping bloc can be seen in the two-way squeeze applied to the Merchant Navy idea (abandoned in the first year of the war), government control over personnel training (abandoned for a joint government-union program) and public ownership of the ships, themselves. This last phase of the "planned" wartime program gave way to a tangled arrangement whereby Liberties and later Victory ships were...