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...private supplier. For the sake of a two-ocean fleet, the U. S. Government is building (and taking title to) additions to Bethlehem's shipyards. Bethlehem engineers, said Steelmaker Grace last week, are expanding its San Francisco yards to build destroyers, converting its ship-repair facilities at Staten Island into ways for smaller ships...
Howard S. Nemerov '41 of New York City won the $500 first undergraduate prize with an essay on Thomas Mann. Second award of $200 went to Laurence Radway '40 of Staten Island, New York for an essay on National Socialism...
Bethlehem. Biggest of the Big 3 is Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Ltd., owned by the No. 2 U. S. steelmaker. It builds ships at Quincy, Mass., at Sparrows Point, Md., at Staten Island, N. Y., and on San Francisco Bay. Youngest, most profitable of the Big 3, it has grossed over $1,000,000,000, netted more than $100,000,000 in its 23-year corporate life. On or nearing its 23 ways last week was the fattest slice of 1940's shipbuilding boom: 60 merchant and naval vessels worth a cool...
Died. Poet Edwin Markham, 87, author of The Man with the Hoe; of pneumonia; in Staten Island, N. Y. Sheepherder, farmer, blacksmith, cowboy, schoolteacher and obscure dabbler in verse until he was 47, he Byroned into fame in 1899 when the San Francisco Examiner published his blank-verse masterpiece, inspired by Millet's painting, The Man with the Hoe. That one poem brought him an estimated $250,000 in 33 years...
...Lincoln's Birthday the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce brought New Yorkers the voice of old Poet Markham, on a two-year-old recording, reciting Lincoln, the Man of the People. As a further treat it presented nine Markham poems about Lincoln, which Markham wrote in 1925, never before published or broadcast. On the air they were read by Virgil Markham, the poet's fictioneer...