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...Western Canada, designed bridges, docks, factories, flour mills and industrial buildings in all of Canada's provinces and in the U.S. Howe's work took him as far afield as Argentina, where he designed several of the great grain terminals that still tower over Buenos Aires' waterfront. "When I build them," says Engineer Howe, "they stay built." In an era of relatively light taxes, his firm grossed $10 million a year; overhead in the modest Port Arthur headquarters...
...murders in the first fifteen minutes set the pace for "The Mob," a B+ cops-and-robbers about waterfront racketeering. Oscar-winning Broderick Crawford has a grand time slugging, drinking, and wisecracking his way through the picture as a city detective who goes underground to crack a crime syndicate...
Guevara Moreno appeals to Ecuador's 60?-a-day rice-mill laborers, the inflation-struck white-collar class, the rank & file of the army and the wretched unemployed living in the split-bamboo shacks hidden behind Guayaquil's impressive masonry waterfront buildings. Plaza's tolerant democracy, though it provides the free press and elections Guevara needs, is not enough for Guevara, who preaches: "We have in this country a minority in a magnificent situation and a majority in a desperate situation. And Plaza's government, it's for the minority, no?" He calls his followers...
...contract was the occasion for the-strike, not the cause. Longshoremen had seized an opportunity to revolt against the whole racket-ridden system which surrounds them: the humiliating daily "shape-up" at which they line up for jobs, the gangsters, chiselers and thieves who infest the waterfront as work gang leaders and hiring bosses, forcing longshoremen to pay for the right to work. For years this situation has been tolerated by Union President Ryan, by the New York Shipping Association, which represents the management of 161 steamship lines and other port industries, and by the New York police...
...strikers were broke and glum and searching for a face-saving way to get back on the job. While more pay and other contract improvements would bring them back to work now, there will be no substantial peace on the waterfront until the rackets and racketeers are cleaned...