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...only about 20,000 new seamen are needed. But with three to five Liberty ships coming off the ways every day, the Government is taking no chances. Besides schools in Florida and California, it has poured $14,000,000 into a new trainee school on Long Island's Sheepshead Bay which is geared to turn out some 10,000 graduates every 90 days...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FIVE-DAY WEEK AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY. NO LIBERTY AT ALL IS GIVEN FOR THREE WEEKS AFTER ENROLLMENT. THEREAFTER LIBERTY IS GRANTED TO TWO-THIRDS OF THE MEN FROM SATURDAY...
...Maritime Service Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn...
...thousand men between the ages of 17 and 35, who customarily greet each other as "Slacker," "Draft dodger" and "Profiteer," stood for one and a half hours in the icy offshore wind at the United States Maritime Training Station at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. last week and heard themselves lauded by President Roosevelt (by letter) and a No. 2 company of lauders as potentially gallant merchant seamen. To the undisguised relief of the station's 1,800 instructors, they uttered no boo, no Bronx cheer, and only a few rude mutterings...
...Fitz. Two years older than his employer, Mr. Fitz, as he is known to turf fans, has been around racetracks for over 50 years. Starting as a stable boy at Sheepshead Bay in 1885, he became a jockey soon afterward, rode on the Frying Pan circuit (half-mile tracks), got $5 a ride (when his employers paid off). In the flourishing Nineties, Jim Fitzsimmons became a pee-wee trainer. His big chance came in 1908 when betting was outlawed in New York, the topnotch U. S. trainers flocked to England, and the second-raters got a crack at the juicy...