I read this Wiki article as well, and was taken by the tragedy on so many levels. That the US Congress was culpable and quietly swept it under the rug is disheartening. It seems so obvious that lifeboat shortages on passenger vessels should have been addressed, preventing the later Titanic fiasco.
I remember as a kid taking the farm crops into market with my father. When he was told the current price for the commodity he more often than not muttered, "Damn Jews". That puzzled me greatly, and over the course of my young adult life asked several respected acquaintances pretty much what...
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