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...strike late last month at the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co.'s port of Puerto Cortes. Because there are no recognized unions (they are banned by law), no one expected the strike to spread. But laborers quit first at United Fruit Co., then at Standard Fruit & Steamship Co., finally in most of the area's shops, factories and mines. With breathtaking efficiency they organized local strike committees...
...student who plans a vacation in Europe but doesn't yet know how he's getting there, the best course is to run right down to the nearest travel agency. After a few weeks' wait, and with the aid of considerable luck, he'll probably get the plane or steamship reservation he wants--for the summer of 1955, that...
...above the tourist class, in the more expensive and less popular cabin first-class accomodations, leading steamship lines can still provide room on almost any sailing this summer. One-way prices range here from $220 to $285 for cabin berths, and from $325 up for first-class...
...wartime profits from a "ships' supply firm which was operating with Government sanction and with Government priorities." Hensel answered with the hottest blast against McCarthy by any Administration official to date, calling the charges "barefaced lies." As an inactive partner of a firm doing business with private steamship companies, not the Government. Hensel declared that he had done nothing illegal or unethical. McCarthy, he said, "is cornered and is attempting a diversionary move...
...growers' cooperative, and also has 1,600 acres in groves of his own. In the state's growing cattle business, the biggest force is Florida's Lykes family, headed by John Wall Lykes (66) and nephew Charles (37). The Lykeses who also own the Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., largest shipper under the U.S. flag (54 cargo ships operating out of Gulf ports), have recently started to concentrate on concentrates. They control Dade City's $15 million Pasco citrus-processing plant, biggest in the state, which in 24 hours can turn out enough fruit products...