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Last week a U. S. ship, the Erica Reed, with the Stars & Stripes painted on her sides, sailed from New York for Leftist Spain, her hull bulging with 11,000,000 lb. of foodstuffs contributed by Leftist sympathizers. Perhaps the most precious part of her cargo was a 26-pound package of nicotinic acid (270,000 doses), the recently developed cure for pellagra. This gift, addressed to Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, himself a well-known physiologist, was sent by 39 U. S. scientists, including three Nobel Prizewinners...
...resubsidization of U. S. shipping under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the Maritime Commission has this year granted operating subsidies totaling $13,500,000 to 13 lines, is itself operating some 50 small cargo ships and a three-ship luxury line, the Good Neighbor Fleet, to South America...
Aboard the Deutschland the 591 passengers, jarred by an explosion that rippled the floor of the D deck dining room, danced, watched a cinema show, slept while the crew fought ten hours to quell the fire in the cellulose, paper and Christmas-toy cargo. Only casualties were fire fighters who got a taste of smoke; safe in the after hold were 46 tanks of Australian fighting fish, 5,000 Harz Mountain canaries...
...runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where he collected a great cargo of grapes and timber which he took to Greenland...
...being the only transatlantic ship ever built with a private bath in every passenger cabin. A neat combination of freighter and passenger ship, her high-set midship superstructure is calculated to provide first-class passenger comfort at tourist rates ($253 round trip), while her low-slung fore & aft cargo decks make money on freight. The Noordam cost $2,300,000, can carry 9,000 tons of cargo, 120 passengers...