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...ships purchased during the war. From the vast U.S. merchant fleet of 40,080,000 tons, 61% of all the ships in the world, the U.S. Maritime Commission will put on the block 2,000 or more slow Liberty ships, about 400 faster Victory ships and C-type cargo liners, and about 550 speedy tankers. Selling very many of these will not be easy...
...threatened to wreck the automaking of Henry J. Kaiser. As a possible hedge against grave trouble, last week he leased two Government-owned aluminum plants near Spokane, Wash., the $47,630,000 Trentwood rolling mill and the $22,270,000 Mead reduction plant. The Kaiser-Frazer-Corp., and Kaiser Cargo, Inc. which did the actual leasing, will pay rentals from $458,000 the first year to $3,915,000 the fifth year...
Frank Sinatra still had no cause for worry. A truck driver bound for Hoboken, N.J. had to fight off an attacking party of hijackers before he could deliver his highly prized cargo: Sinatra recordings, $30,000 worth...
...start an airline? Many of them have already found that this calls for more than a pilot's license, a surplus plane and free-enterprising spirit. Most decided to fly cargo. It looked easier than flying passengers. But plans to fly cargo were one thing. Getting contracts was another. Some were lucky...
Next week Slick Airways will fly its first commercial cargo (vegetables and seafood) to the "Texas Brag" dinner* in Washington. Taking in all the hustle & bustle at Alamo Field, old Charlie Urschel Sr., a director of the fledgling company, cracked: "You'd think there was a hot lease play around here...