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these destroyers during the day. Until late at night he pursued
hobby of building ships models, which he never made an
attempt to sell.
his
Dieckhoff weighed his words carefully during our talk.
did you apply for a transfer from Staten Island to the
"Why
Brooklyn Navy
"I
don
"How
Yard?"
I asked.
he said.
guess there was more money in
much were you getting when you were working on the
t know,"
it."
"I
destroyers?"
"It
very
was some time
ago,"
he said slowly.
"I
do not remember
good."
are you getting now at the Navy
dollars and twenty-nine cents a week."
much
"How
"Forty
Yard?"
Germany last year for a couple of months and
before that you went to Germany for six months. Were you able
to save enough for these trips on your wages?"
"You
went
to
do not spend very much," he said.
live here all alone."
much do you save a week?"
"Oh, I don t know. Ten dollars a week."
"That would make five hundred dollars a
year if you worked
which you didn t. You traveled third class. A round
steadily,
leave
trip would be about two hundred dollars. That would
three hundred to spend provided you did not buy clothes,
you
"I
"I
"How
How did you manage to live in Germany
months on three hundred dollars? Did you work there?"
He hesitated and said, "No, I did not work there. I traveled
around. I was not in one place."
"How did you do it on three hundred dollars for six months?
etc.,
for these trips.
for six
brother gave me
"What s
your brother
"My
"Oh,
business
He s
got a big
I can get a report from the American
he interrupted. "His business isn t that big."
Consul"
just general business in
Bremerhafen.
there."
"Perhaps
"Oh,"
money."
s business?"