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...first job was running a pushcart. Then he signed on as a coal passer on the steamship Dochra and made a trip to South America. After that, he was on his own. He worked in the fire rooms of Hudson River night boats. He "carried the hod" during construction of the Woolworth Building and many another Manhattan building, and made $19.25 a week...
Land of Tourists. By this month's end, cruise ships of Canada Steamship Lines will enter the Saguenay, their rails lined with the first of the season's 250,000 tourists, mostly from the U.S. Off the frowning, forbidding, 2,000-foot cliff of Cape Eternity, the ships will slow down. Their jazz orchestras will grind out Ave Maria and searchlights will play on a statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel...
...National Defense Mediation Board, later on the War Labor Board. As mayor, he had put San Francisco's needs ahead of politics, had rammed through city purchase (for $7,500,000) of the Market Street Railway. He had been president, later board chairman, of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. for 18 years...
...employment. National income was running at the rate of $215 billion a year-a new record. Production lines were humming. There were no critical consumers' shortages anywhere. People were already getting used to such products of the postwar dream world as television and home laundries. One U.S. steamship company was ready to lay down the largest, most luxurious passenger ship in U.S. maritime history; the new Ford would soon be unveiled...
...year-old Eileen Gibson, known as "Gay," they were forever resolved in the early morning of Oct. 18. Ninety miles off the coast of Portuguese Guinea, she was pushed through a porthole into the ocean -perhaps alive, perhaps dead-from a first-class cabin on "B" deck of the steamship Durban Castle. Eight days later, when the Durban Castle put into Southampton, detectives came aboard and arrested James Camb, a deck steward, for the murder of Eileen Gibson...