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...fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite so often as Violeta. Although he reads the Communist Hoy for its detailed waterfront news coverage, Catalino does not yet share with the Communist leaders of his union their hatred for the U.S. He thinks the U.S. is the greatest country in the world and wants to go there-when his union can get him more money, that...
...finished a letter to the U.N., offering the property as a gift. The conditions: that New York City buy up and give to U.N. the few lots needed to square off the site; that the city turn over the streets included in the area, and rights to the waterfront...
...Suiza 20-mm. cannon works (later the British Manufacture and Research Co.). With him Kendall brought a picaresque legend: a Yorkshire miller's son, he had run away to sea at 14, made $5,000 helping police raid opium dens along China's Yangtze River, run a waterfront cabaret in Shanghai. Eventually he ended up in Philadelphia as a steeplejack. Later he went to work for Philadelphia's Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. He rapidly rose to Budd's representative at France's famed...
...obvious hole: the rich Widow Fitzgerald appears much too bright to get herself mixed up with Garfield before checking with the Better Business Bureau. Much of the fresh, exciting look about Nobody Lives Forever comes from its underworld sets: the flyblown bars and diners, noisy juke joints and moldy waterfront piers. Most of its convincing punch is furnished by an excellent supporting rogues' gallery, which includes George Coulouris, Walter Brennan and George Tobias...
Sweeten the Pot. He had worked slowly and shrewdly. For the last eleven years his I.L.W.U. organizers had lined up Honolulu's waterfront workers, spread their grip into the sugar and pineapple fields, canneries and many other enterprises...