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Like most of the world's wandering peoples, Armenians cherish the dream of home. In Manhattan, last week, 150 of the 150,000 Armenians in the U.S. found the tug of homesickness too strong to resist. They stepped aboard the trim, white Soviet steamship Rossia, sailed for the old country-now a part of the U.S.S.R...
Like many another labor dispute, the row on the California docks started over a seemingly small matter. At issue were the bargaining rights of nine "walking bosses" (stevedore foremen) of the Luckenbach Steamship Co., oldest U.S. shipping line and second largest intercoastal carrier. But as seven ships tied up at San Francisco docks and two in Los Angeles, the crews walked off. Luckenbach's California service, which carries some 90,000 tons of cargo a month, was paralyzed...
...Susie, a self-made immigrant from India, had built herself an enviable reputation as the toughest cat on the Brooklyn waterfront. Last week Susie, who weighs 20 pounds and has killed as many as four rats in an hour, aimed a potent left at an adversary at the Kerr Steamship pier. The rat ducked and Susie's haymaker carried her clear off the pier. Gamely Susie struggled shoreward, ending up on a piling under the pier. Dockwallopers combed the waterfront looking for her. After six days, the longshoremen heard her calls and organized a successful rescue party...
California's American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (the "AH Line") had a new president last week. But the name was old and familiar. Lewis A. Lapham, 38, is the lean, twinkling son of San Francisco's tubby, twinkling Mayor Roger Lapham (TIME, July 15) and grandson and great-nephew of Lewis H. Lapham and George S. Dearborn. Starting with a fleet of windjammers, his grandfather and Dearborn had built A-H into the biggest U.S. intercoastal steamship line. New President Lapham knew that his job was no sinecure: "I'm being thrown off the dock...
...went to work. The State Department's Will Clayton set up meetings with Detroit big shots, who promised to supply the trucks. Steamship Tycoon Albert Moore (Moore-McCormack) agreed to deliver the trucks if Brazil could promise "no waiting" at its snafued docks (TIME, April 7). President Dutra gave his word. Last week's delivery was the payoff...