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Soviet ships had been calling at U.S. ports ever since V-J Day, and nobody but customs officials and longshoremen had paid much attention to them. But last week, when the 10,000-ton Soviet steamship Chukotka tied up at a Jersey City pier and began loading $282,000 worth of industrial machinery (which had been licensed for export by the Department of Commerce), all hell broke loose...
...second Sheets exhibition, which opened in Los Angeles' State Exposition Building almost simultaneously with the first, showed something of his range and of his success. On the walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
...turned back on her normal course, he was looked on as the leading figure in a miracle. But when he was dried, dressed and fed, he became again just Tomas Montanez, the ship's carpenter, a man so clumsy that he had managed to fall off a big steamship on a fine...
...afternoon last week, as the Grace Line steamship Santa Clara lazed through the blue Caribbean, a man named Tomas Montanez was leaning against one of her bulwarks, out of sight of the bridge. Even in the small world of the ship, he was a minor figure; he was the ship's carpenter. But 30 seconds later, Tomas Montanez was a new, superior and infinitely precious being. He had fallen overboard...
Even before the war, the Big Five no longer dominated the merchandising field. Piggly Wiggly, Sears, Roebuck and others had moved in. Now Pan American and United Air Lines finished cracking the transport monopoly once enjoyed by the Big Five's Matson steamship line. More visitors were arriving in Hawaii by air than by sea. But the Big Five still supplies most of the direction and driving power for the islands' economy...