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Early in the week there were two near-disasters that gave pier officials the jitters, threatened to close the port altogether. The 6,535-ton American Export freighter Extavia smashed into its Brooklyn pier, leaving a 100-foot section of jagged wreckage. Then the Cunard Lines' green-hulled Caronia knifed through 30 feet of ten-inch concrete and rammed right up to Pier 90's shed before it could be stopped and worked into its slip (estimated damage to the two piers...
...Constitution, American Export Lines' gem of the ocean, made it the awkward way. On the big liner's first attempt, the tide was wrong, and the Constitution drifted within a hand's breadth of smashing into its pier. Dangling anchors dropped with a screech, and with engines in full astern the big ship backed off. On the second try, after a tense hour and 15 minutes, Captain Bernt Jacobsen finally inched the Connie into its slip...
When the 81,237-ton Queen Mary made its way slowly up the Hudson toward the Cunard piers, all Manhattan watched breathlessly. The Mary, after a gingerly pass at Pier 90, finally muddled through, corning to rest amidships on the "knuckle'' (pier end), and calling on the white-collar dockhands to pull her in. The U.S. Lines' America followed the Queen Mary's lead, pivoted in after 55 minutes...
...thousands at dockside and in office buildings could feel. The tense delicacy of the maneuvers made a French sea dog the waterside hero of the week. When Captain Franck Garrigue the beaming master of the Ile de France, brought his 44,356-ton liner abreast of the French Line pier, he did not hesitate. Quick as an eel, he wheeled the Ile around and slid her into the slip in just 19 minutes. Even the pickets cheered. The glory and honor of France were unblemished, and the 1936 song of Jerome Kern's was laid to rest.* "When...
...Jersey mob keep the boodle. Meanwhile, Campbell's pals, unaware that he had double-crossed them, set out to avenge his temporary kidnaping at the hands of Smith & Co. Four of them led by John ("Cockeye") Dunn (since electrocuted for murder), pulled alongside Smith in a car at Pier 72 and punctured him with one pistol bullet and eight shotgun slugs. The anti-Dunn Jersey mob, grateful for their furs, took the wounded man in, got him patched up by a doctor, and sent him to Cliffside Park, N.J. to recuperate. According to Smith's testimony, Cliffside...