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...wrangling spread. Enlistments in the Guard dropped to zero. For six weeks Guardsmen went unpaid. Morale dwindled. At half strength, Guards did double duty. The situation was desperate, said a Guard colonel, "particularly in regard to the San Francisco waterfront and the Golden Gate Bridge...
...Francisco's longshoremen and their waterfront employers seldom agree. But last week they loudly agreed that cargo space was being wasted, that ships steamed out through the Golden Gate with precious freights of airplanes, munitions, food dangerously and improperly stowed, that loading of vital supplies for Pacific outposts was being delayed and badly managed, and that Army & Navy officials in Washington were to blame...
Ships departed with light fuselages tucked in their bottoms, heavy tanks lashed to their decks. Army explanation: commanding officers wanted first things first on unloading. Waterfront men said that some of the top-heavy freighters they saw depart would never have to be unloaded if the vessels were hit by a hurricane...
...Corps regulations demanded that crated wings of P-40s and P-39s be placed on end. Estimates along the waterfront were that 30 to 60% more planes could have been carried across the Pacific if wing crates could have been laid flat or on their sides...
Wild as the winds on Scotland's Ben Cruachan, red-haired Mrs. McEuen charged that seamen were being driven from her club's pleasant premises to the dismal bootleg joints on the Halifax waterfront...