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Travel facilities to Europe this summer will be extremely crowded. Many steamship reservations are already taken. The quickest and most expensive way to travel abroad is by plane. Flights departing and returning on almost any date are still available with all the major airlines. Experience recommends that you consult a travel agent for details, bookings, and complete tours...
...Next day the task of bringing in the big ships became vastly more complicated because longshoremen had decided not to cross the tugboatmen's picket lines. Steamship company office workers came to the rescue, many of them in natty business suits and overcoats as they lent a hand at the lines...
...Dominick Genova, was getting out of prison. Genova went to the waterfront, too, and witnessed the meteoric rise of slim, ham-handed Mickey Bowers-boss of the I.L.A.'s "pistol local," which today dominates the great piers of the French Line, the United States Lines and the Cunard Steamship...
Rewards & Prerogatives. Only time can tell whether the rewards and prerogatives of her new life will compensate for its restrictions and demands. But there will be many prerogatives. If she wishes to travel, airlines, railroads or steamship lines will produce space for her at the ring of a telephone, and hold up schedules with harried smiles if she is late. The President's DC-6 Independence will be hers to command. Hair stylists and dress designers will scramble to serve her, even though Mamie sticks steadily to her bangs, and, despite owning a few Paris gowns, is a great...
...nearly half a million dollars in petty-cash "gratuities" in the last five years. Committee Counsel Theodore Kiendl prodded Nolan into an admission: Jarka paid off not only labor racketeers but agents and executives of shipping companies to get their unloading business. E.g., a vice president of the Waterman Steamship Lines got $2,500 a year for three years, the local manager of the Holland-America Line got $15,000 a year for two years...