Shipping Firms Face Big Suit
Seatrain Lines Inc files a federal suit in New Orleans accusing five steamship companies of Sherman antitrust violations. Defendants include Sykes Brother Steamship Co Standard Fruit and Steamship Co United Fruit Co West India Fruit and Steamship Co and Empress Naviera de Cuba S A. Seatrain seeks 1.8 million dollars in damages and 21 million per year while violations continue. The suit alleges the Gulf and South Atlantic Havana Conference contracts penalize shippers who use nonapproved water carriers.
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New Orleans
Federal District Court
Seatrain Lines, Inc
Sykes Brother Steamship Co
Standard Fruit and Steamship Co
United Fruit Co
West India Fruit and Steamship Co
United States
Empress Naviera de Cuba, S. A
Cuba
Seatrain
Gulf and South Atlantic-Havana Steamship Conference
Brazil Expands Its Merchant Fleet Across 38 Ports
Brazil grows its Lloyd Brasileiro fleet to 36 vessels valued at $75 million, adding 246 708 tons deadweight. The line operates Santos to New York New Orleans Hamburg and Argentina, with a two-dike repair base in Guanabara Bay. WWII losses included 19 vessels 336 mariners and 1 000 000 tons of cargo.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Government
Lloyd Brasileiro
Canadian Shipbuilding Corp
Pascagoula
Miss
Canadian Line
U. S. Maritime Commission
Ingalls
Genies
Ilha de Cocangue
Guanabara Bay
Private James I Martin completes basic training at Fort Ord
Ends eight weeks of basic training with the 12th Infantry at Fort Ord. Pvt. James I. Martin, 19, son of Mrs. Grace M. Prentice of 1235 E Ninth St, enlisted July 8, 1948. Former Poly High student active in track and field. Awaiting assignment to a regular Army unit.
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James I. Martin
Grace M. Prentice
E. Ninth St
12Th Infantry
Fort Ord
Pvt
Martin
Poly High
Speechless Boy Sees Movie Studios Tour in Hollywood
Seven year old John Wilson Reid, son of a Brisbane sportswriter, toured Walt Disney Studios to see how cartoon characters are made. He then visited Warner Brothers Studio and Griffith Park Zoo before heading to the Institute of Logopedics in Wichita Kansas for speech restoration research.
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John Wilson Reid
Brisbane
Walt Disney Studios
Warner Brothers Studio
Butch Jenkins
Luana Patten
John
Griffith Park Zoo
Institute of Logopedics
Wichita
Kan
Campaign to Cut Cancer Toll Gains
New York reports the American women's anti cancer campaign has reduced malignancy deaths to record lows and increased cures. Metropolitan Life figures show a 15 year drop in death rates among white female policyholders across income brackets.
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New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance
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