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...Frank J. Taylor, chief spokesman for the owners, maintain that cutting hours of ship's crews meant more men and more living quarters at the expense of revenue-bearing cargo? Bridges recalled-his Australian voice dripping with wide-eyed vowels-that merchant ships carried 30-man gun crews during the war and facilities for them were still in the ships...
Protect a Monopoly? If the proposals stick, most of the lines can stay in business only by trying to get a franchise as a scheduled line. Few had the cash or time to push an application through CAB over the objections of established lines. The cargo business, the new lines grumbled bitterly, would now go to the regularly scheduled lines...
...Washington was not the only vessel which could not sail. Only 139 ships were loading or unloading cargo at New York's miles of docks. But there was a total of 567 ships in the port (v. a wartime peak of 486). Another 101 ships were anchored in the Hudson River as far north as Tarrytown...
...until the night they crowd aboard a little tramp ship for the voyage to Palestine. Sometimes they leave from other, poorly organized ports. Last week 1,014 Jews were stranded at La Spezia on the Ligurian coast; they were resolved to sail aboard an old 750-ton wooden cargo boat, the Fede, jampacked with canvas cots in fantastic, seven-tier rows...
...Maritime Commission proposed to go right on building better ships, 50 a year. (In 16 years after 1920, the U.S. built only two dry-cargo ships.) Thirty are already abuilding or contracted for, at a cost of $93 million. At the end of this month, the Commission will open bids for the fastest merchant vessels ever built in the U.S.: two 670-ft., 28-knot, 543-passenger liners. It is also busy reconverting the P-2s, originally built as Navy troop carriers, for private shippers. Their cabins, in which the beds neatly fold into the bulkhead (see cut), will carry...