Word: shiploads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway's smash hit picturing a shipload of men worn down by lack of change, lack of women, lack of war is: 1. Red Peppers. 2. Make Mine Manhattan. 3. Shore Leave. 4. Angel in the Lights. 5. Mister Roberts...
Laid on a Pacific cargo ship late in the war and far from the fighting, Mr. Roberts pictures a shipload of men worn down by lack of change, lack of women, lack of war. It suggests that boredom can be as tough on the nerves as bombardment. The only war the crew of the AK 601 can fight is against their captain, who makes life tough for others because life was tough for him. The crew's great hero is Lieut, (j.g.) Roberts, a "quiet guy who, while sweating to get transferred to the real fight, keeps in trim...
...Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
...four months. The only trick was to get the scrap to the U.S. from the jungles of 16 far Pacific islands, where it lies among great dumps of war surplus. But Bethlehem Steel, which had contracted to pay $30,000,000 for the scrap, hoped to get the first shipload in a month. To the scrap-starved steel industry, it could not come too soon...
Crackling events reminded U.N. what enforcing solutions might mean. In the Eastern Mediterranean, British destroyers intercepted another shipload of Jewish refugees; one Jew was shot to death and nine were wounded in a scuffle with the boarding party. In Palestine, Haganah stepped up recruiting. Five Zionist leaders, including Jewish Agency President David Ben-Gurion, received messages signed by "the commander in chief of fighting Arab youth for free Palestine." The messages promised: "You will die as soon as possible...