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From Captain Berdine came an order to pick up survivors. Latticed cargo nets were slung over the stern sides. Single lifelines dangled from the forward decks. Several bobbing Germans drifted within range, shouting "Kamerad! Kamerad!" A few hundred yards away the U-boat rocked and rolled, waves washing higher & higher over its knife-slim deck. She began to settle by the stern...
...looked good to the hard-pressed commercial lines. It also looked good to the U.S. Post Office, which is painfully aware that it has been selling stamps for more air mail than the airlines can consistently carry along with their priority payload (now more than 70% of total cargo for the big lines...
There should be a burlap boom. The U.S. is critically short of burlap, and Calcutta warehouses are bulging with it. Yet ships in the last month have been returning from India with unused cargo space. Reason: Indian exporters have jacked their prices up 15% in the last six months, but OPA maintains a tight price ceiling on burlap in the U.S. (at the dock, it now costs $15 per bale above the ceiling...
...cottage chairs under cherry trees, were sitting the most beautiful Russian women-Kuban Cossacks." Voyetekhov went into Sevastopol aboard a destroyer at night, finding the half-wrecked city in flames. Milling around the dock were women & children whom the destroyer was to evacuate when it had unloaded its cargo of men and munitions for Sevastopol...
...temporary operating certificates: British West Indian Airways, which he turned into a ferry for U.S. Army engineers and materials between Miami and Trinidad, and his principal enterprise, TACA, S.A., which covers six of the countries between Mexico and Panama. BWIA was authorized to fly passengers, mail and cargo between Miami and Port-of-Spain, TACA to fly between Miami and San José, Costa Rica...