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...first Dillingham in the islands was Walter's father-Benjamin Franklin Dillingham, first officer on a clipper ship out of San Francisco. In Honolulu on shore leave in 1865, he fell off a horse, broke his leg, and settled down for life. Benjamin bought a hardware store, married a missionary's daughter, had four children. In 1888 the ambitious ex-sailor got a royal franchise from King Kalakaua to build a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sugar cane from inland Oahu down to the sea. Skeptics called it "Dillingham's Folly." But it was a huge success...
Kennedy was anxious to shore up Yugoslavia's status as a "neutral," seemingly dissident Communist country. But to protect his own domestic political position, the President arranged a welcome that was courteous, correct-and about as cold as a stripper in a snowstorm...
Brisbane had been called in to shore up the Mirror, which was losing ground steadily in its race with the News. But he failed, and was succeeded in 1935 by Charles B. McCabe, then 36, who stayed on as publisher until the paper's death. McCabe did all a publisher could to polish the Mirror's public image, redesignated it "the paper with a heart," sponsored numerous community activities. Its pages, already crowded with lively columnists-Walter Winchell and Dan Parker, got more of the same. McCabe also stitched in some new comics and features beamed...
Once in operation, the ship could handle approximately 1000 tons of trash a day from Boston and Quincy, burning it beyond the three-mile limit and leaving the ashes about 20 miles from shore. It might, if successful, form the nucleus of a fleet handling all 4000 tons of refuse generated daily in the Greater Boston area...
...herring rather than the hake, haddock and cod that most American fishermen are after-but the other species tend to disappear after the herring, their natural food, becomes scarce. Industrial pollution in such nations as Japan and the U.S. has tended to drive the fish farther from shore and to make worse the lot of the smaller inshore fisherman...