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GREAT NECK, N. Y.--Blonde Bubbles Luckenbach, until today the heiress-apparent of the vast Luckenbach steamship empire, was married this afternoon to 22-year-old Billy Dobbs...
Black Diamond Steamship Co. NLRB has jurisdiction over marine labor (which U. S. Maritime Commission would like to rule...
...over the rest of his journey. Seventh night is spent at Rambang, Dutch East Indies, eighth at Longreach, Australia. Ninth day the traveler, his all-British 13,000-mile flight completed, is landed in Brisbane, busy capital of Queensland. The long trip will cost him $800, cut the fastest steamship time by 35 days...
...century's changes from wood to iron and steel; from paddle wheel to screw, to multiple screws. Last paddle wheeler left the Atlantic in 1874, the first turbine arrived 20 years later. "Grandest failure" was the 18,914-ton Great Eastern, a five-funnel combined paddle and screw steamship, 680 feet long, built in 1858. Most vessels then carried about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern accommodated 4,000- 1,800 more than today's Queen Mary. Forty years ahead of her times, the Great Eastern never paid her way, ended her days as a cable ship. Pride...
Last week it passed two more milestones : N. M. U. received a charter from C. I. 0., and it had written to 30 steamship companies, including the big International Mercantile Marine (U. S. Lines, Panama Pacific Line, etc.): "The National Maritime Union has been chosen overwhelmingly as the Collective Bargaining agency for the unlicensed personnel on your ships. It is now your duty to comply with the law ..." (i. e., bargain under the National Labor Relations...