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...part of its program, the Maritime Commission had slashed the wartime limit of 900 passengers for each ship to 600 and added recreational facilities. The nine ships are the Ernie Pyle, Marine Tiger, Marine Jumper, Marine Shark, Marine Carp. Marine Marlin, Marine Flasher, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch...
...described him (under the pseudonym of M. Leblanc) in When the Going Was Good: "He talked of Abyssinia, where he had heavy business undertakings ... he expressed his contempt for the poetry of Rimbaud . . ." He thrived on risk and had made and lost more than one fortune. He liked shark-infested waters: it made swimming more interesting...
...popped up above the tropical horizon, glared, and began to blaze. Sharks cruised patiently beyond range of the shark repellent on rafts and life belts. Some of the men on the rafts vomited as they rose and fell on the sea. There was constant turmoil as men resting on the rafts traded places with men clinging to their sides...
...years shark-mouthed Matyas Rakosi, Hungary's Communist boss, had been casting covetous eyes at MAORT (Magyar Amerikai Olajipari Rt.), the $25 million American-owned Hungarian affiliate of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). Behind his greed was Moscow pressure: the American concession controlled richer fields than the Soviet-dominated joint company, Hungary's only other oil producer. The Russians had operated MAORT for a short time under Red army occupation, and wanted it back. Last week, Rakosi seized MAORT and in Washington the two U.S. citizen executives from whom he took it summed up the Rakosi expropriation method...
...Shmoo-Plus Theory. Old Man Mose was afraid that a sudden oversupply of consumer goods would produce serious economic dislocations. Typical was the plight of Softhearted John, the shark-mouthed grocer, whose goods no one would buy as long as they could have shmoos instead. "Ah'll be ruined ef ev'ry-body has everything they need!" he moaned. "Ah cain't make any money...