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Captain Bacon said that his ship had been making possibly 15 knots, which seemed a high speed for a pea-soup fog, but there was also some evidence that the freighter, though outward bound, had been moving along the inward-bound channel. These were questions for the board of inquiry and the courts to decide; even before the inquiry was over the U.S. filed a damage action asking $14 million from the Luckenbach Line, accusing it of negligence. Among the government's accusations: Excessive speed, failure to sound proper whistle, failure to use radar or other navigational warning aids...
...more pleasing these days. Nor had he any more basis for ignoring the deadly gamble that the U.S. was taking in cutting back on its defenses. In fact, the President sounded disturbingly like the man at the carnival, happily willing to gamble the farm on the conviction that the pea was under the middle shell...
...peace was a pea under Reuther's walnut shells. Quicker than the eye, Reuther switched the pea. He announced that though Chrysler's new pension offer was good (he actually had won what he asked for), other benefits were inadequate. What Reuther's statisticians had discovered was that the cost to Chrysler for such pensions would be less per man per hour than the cost to Ford, because Ford workers are generally older and have had more years of service. Even though he had got his trust fund, Reuther was determined to make Chrysler cough...
...week's end the pea of peace was still out of sight. In the 60-odd working days that had been lost, Chrysler employees had lost more than $72 million, an average of $809 a man. Chrysler had lost the profits on almost 500,000 autos that were never made. And Chrysler dealers had lost an average of almost $18,500 per man in Walter Reuther's shell game...
While the wheels of justice creaked, Lewis buried his brother. This week he was due back in his seat on the pea-green sofa...