Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jarka Corp. wanted to work a new pier. The word was passed for Jarka to hire a pier boss named Tony Anastasio, brother of Murder, Inc.'s lord high executioner, Albert Anastasia.* When Jarka refused to stand for the shakedown, Anastasio's other piers went on strike. Jarka complained to Joe Ryan, and Joe blandly "recommended" Anastasio. Anastasio was hired...
...entirely distasteful to some firms. Jarka Vice President Captain Douglas Yates put it succinctly when he explained why he hired one Albert Ackalitis, a mobster with a police record as long as a towline. "The guiding thought in hiring Ackalitis," said Captain Yates, "frankly, was to have on that pier some order and discipline, as I call it, amongst...
...phony name. O'Mara never did a lick of work, but he netted $24,130 in five years. Portly, white-haired Jones Devlin, the general manager of the powerful U.S. Lines (S.S. United States, America), related with bored weariness how the U.S. Lines abandoned one of its midtown piers rather than try to cope with organized pilferage. Asked Counsel Kiendl: "Were there ten tons of steel stolen from that pier?" Replied Devlin: "That was the most remarkable case of pilferage...
...Exception. In its first week of public hearings, the Crime Commission got a good look at four live I.L.A. operators. Big Frank Russo, a pier boss, admitted that he had received $1,400-plus an unspecified amount of "vacation money." Sullen, hulking Fred Marino testified that he was elected shop steward of local 327, denied earlier testimony that he had demanded that the Luckenbach Lines bar all cops and FBI agents from his pier. Anthony Delmar, Brooklyn pier boss, was sworn in while holding up his left hand, contributed little that was either sinister or helpful. Jerry Anastasio...
...Katzman, a bouncy, bulb-shaped 51, has his own formula for keeping his earning record perfect. His five sound stages (at Columbia's dingy old subsidiary studio) are usually buzzing with assorted pygmies, giants, animals (wild and tame), half-dressed women (wild & wild-eyed), cowboys and pâpier-maché interplanetary vehicles. With these props Sam can roll into a picture at the drop of a dollar. Says he: "We don't get stories. We get titles and then write stories around them or to fit them. For instance, we had this title Flame of Calcutta. Naturally...