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...Staten Island is a broad, semi-rusticky borough (Richmond) in New York Harbor, 57 square miles of suburb off the starboard beam of the Statue of Liberty. It is dotted with Dutch names like New Dorp, Kill van Kull, factories, and about 100 real farms. At least one of its 160,000 residents is nationally famed. He is hoary, old Poet Edwin Markham (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln, the Man of the People), now an enfeebled, house-ridden codger...
...shipowners grew surer that there would be a market for sale and charter of their vessels as goods piled up on U. S. wharves. Still in the free port of Staten Island awaiting shipment to France were many of the 5,000 trucks ordered for the French Army. In the Texas ports of Galveston and Houston, warehouses bulged with thousands of bales of cotton long overdue at their European destination. Two months ago New York elevators were so choked with wheat that rail shipments had to be halted. Imports were similarly delayed...
...seen a good many pictures of war-order planes lined up on fields, and shrouded bomber fuselages being loaded on freighters or falling into harbor mud. But aside from aircraft it has seen little concrete evidence of war orders. Last week (see cut) 478 Studebaker trucks on a Staten Island dock in New York Harbor readied for shipment to the Allied Armies, provided the first good view of nonplane war orders in the flesh...
William O'Keefe '42, Staten Island...
...Resources Board, he started honeymooning with New York's very unromantic powerboss, Floyd L. Carlisle (who would like in the process of integration to get a good piece of Howard Hopson's old Associated Gas & Electric system, which sticks into his New York organization at Rochester, Staten Island, elsewhere). Any chance that some arrangement could be made whereby Mr. Carlisle would become War II's No. 1 Dollar a Year man, and deliver the industry's cooperation in a big building program, suddenly vanished. New Dealers, suspicious of aggressive Mr. Johnson...