Transportation News in the Sunday Times Sports Section

The Sunday Times sports section also carried a page devoted mostly to transportation news.

The Times reported that some former GIs went to the wrong pier to meet their war brides when two or more ships with the same name entered the port of NY around the same day.

In a new experiment, Standard Oil Company of NJ and the Jersey Standard Tanker Officers Association agreed to waive overtime pay and port relief for officers on Esso tankers in exchange for a guaranteed minimum of 90 days paid vacation. This. it was said, would allow for a more normal family life.

A feature story stated that many steamship lines were contemplating not returning to the intercoastal shipping business once their ships were returned to them from wartime duty because of the high costs and the competition from railways.

Both tracks of the main New York to Washington line of the Pennsylvania Railroad were blocked for 10 hours after 16 freight cars, part of a 76-car southbound train, were derailed at 4:38 AM. The northbound track was cleared at 2:30 PM. It was the railroad line's 100th anniversary this day.

The page carried ads for Moran Towing & Transportation, a tugboat company established in 1860 that operated in the New York, New Orleans and San Francisco harbors, and for the Todd Shipyards Corporation, headquartered at 1 Broadway, which operated shipyards around the world, to repair, convert and build ships.

This page was also the place for used car ads. Most of the advertisers were looking to buy cars, in some cases to ship overseas. Several of the car lots were in Manhattan, mostly on the far west or far east sides. Dawn Motor Sales on West 59th advertised that it had no fancy showrooms or super-salesmen. Chase rented cars on West 57th.