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...wooden shed alongside, crewmen helped stevedores heave cargo aboard the Hamonic. A few of the passengers gawked at them from the top deck. Others were at breakfast in the long salon, and many were still in their staterooms. Suddenly a truck on the pier backfired and burst into flame. When the fire reached the gasoline tank, a rolling blaze swept up the ship's side, billowed over the deck...
...cure for inflation is no mystery either. It is goods-plenty of them. The Foreign Economic Administration has started to give the cure. From a West Coast port, a ship loaded with food, clothing and medicine left for the Islands, the first cargo of private consumers' goods to sail since the liberation...
Most of the cargo was for private traders, who have every reason to expect a fast, profitable turnover. Soon FEA hopes to ship 30,000 tons a month, hopes that this will check the inflation until the Islands' economy can be started toward restoration. But it will take hundreds of ships and many more thousands of tons before the Islands can really be started on the road back. Until the war is over and ships are freed for peacetime traffic, the Philippines will get only a few drops of the medicine they direly need...
...Europe streamed in by the thousands. (One day last week the majestic Queen Elizabeth, which, like her sister Mary, had been an enormous military secret, shuttling across the Atlantic for five years, brought in some 14,000.) On the West Coast, still-censored ports throbbed with the still-censored cargo...
...helium, which weighs only one-seventh as much as air, to inflate airplane tires and thereby save precious cargo weight? This idea might have occurred to any ten-year-old, but it remained for engineers of the Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp. to think of it. They propose to use it in Consolidated's projected plane, the 204-passenger CV-37, which will be so huge that it would normally carry 180 Ibs. of air in the tires alone. Cost of a helium pump-up (near a helium plant): about $50. Weight saving: 154 Ibs., the approximate equivalent...