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...foreground was an appalling unemployment problem. The chairman of Shanghai's General Labor Union in a report to party bosses had recently given the following partial breakdown of unemployment: construction workers, 31,000 (95%); cigarette factory workers, 30,000 (75%); wharf coolies, 10,000 (32%); merchant seamen, 20,000; shop & sales clerks, 20,000. He admitted widespread unemployment in the papermaking, matchmaking, silk-weaving, rubber and cotton textile industries. On the basis of these figures, Hong Kong observers reckoned that 600,000 people were close to starvation in Shanghai...
Then Hine and his men began as desperate and difficult a job as seamen can undertake-escape from a sunken sub. At 7:40 Hine opened the sea valves and began slowly flooding the compartment. He lowered a canvas funnel, big enough for one man to get through. At the top of the funnel was a hatch, opening outside the vessel. The bottom of the funnel was under the surface of the water in the compartment...
...waterfront sector of St. Pauli, dozens of nightclubs stretch along a half-mile of neon lights on the Reeperbahn. Seamen of all nations dance with heavily rouged "animation ladies," and pay Stork Club prices for flaccid German champagne. The rule at the Bal Paradox is that the women ask the men to dance. In Hamburg's railroad station is the Treffpunkt agency: for 25 marks ($5.95) a man can leaf through a photo album, select a girl, arrange a date. Says proud Treffpunkt Manager Max Pollack: "All my girls are high-class, and you'd be surprised...
...seamen and shipyard workers have become cab drivers, waiters, elevator operators, janitors, trolley conductors, house painters. During the Christmas rush, a former ship captain worked in a department store as a detective...
Detective methods had to be used to keep track of the four patients, all seamen. The detecting work was done by Dr. John F. Mahoney, who retired last week as medical director of the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, U.S. Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y., Dr. Richard C. Arnold, his successor, and Serologist Ad Harris. For the first few months after treatment, the seamen had been kept ashore, and on call. But for almost two years of wartime service they were all over the bounding main and in many a disease-ridden liberty port...