Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco one day last week churned the Panama Pacific Liner California, bound for Manhattan. Next day, when the ship put in at San Pedro, her 374 seamen refused to take her to sea again unless their pay was jacked from the Atlantic rate, under which they had signed on, to the Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her husband Lord Charles Cavendish, started East...
Maudlinity is the keynote of Riffraff. Its situations come out of a can that was stale long before the first tuna was tinned. And it makes no effort to turn to account the genuine picturesqueness of the San Pedro, Calif, docks, where most of Riffraff was shot. Best scene: the finance company reclaiming the allurements of the Tracy-Harlow home...
That the fine record of U. S. seamen has been more dependent on the U. S. flag waving over them than on their own courage and ability startlingly appeared last week when U. S. seamen of the U. S. freighter Oregon slipped off her in San Pedro, Calif. Her owners said the aviation gasoline she carried was destined for Singapore, but she was bound via the Suez Canal and her gallant crew felt they should first consult Secretary of State Cordell Hull. While their walking delegate was doing so, the Oregon's owners offered the crew a 50% bonus...
...route San Pedro to Balboa...
That, last week, was the second heat of the world's richest race for harness horses. In the first heat, Greyhound, already a 1-to-2 favorite, had come up from last in the backstretch to win by a neck over Pedro Tipton, in 2 min. 2 1/4 sec., the best winner's time ever clocked in the trot. In the interval between heats, bookmakers had cut down the odds and finally, when this failed to discourage Greyhound's backers, scratched him off their boards. By winning the second heat in 1934 Greyhound became the first trotter...