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...port the owner had to call this fact to the attention of the government inspector by cable, if necessary to the next port, and if the inspector found any unused space on the ship, the ship owners were fined an amount equal to twice the freight rate for the cargo refused, the money go received being payable to the aggrieved shipper...
...with a stern rebuff on this side of the Atlantic. The U. S. Transport "Leviathan," which England offered to purchase, is still rotting at its Hoboken dock because anti-British sentiment only to effectively blocked such a negotiation. Ships in Boston Harbor were prevented from taking on cargo for two months for the reason that they were flying the Union Jack. These are but two gross examples of a campaign as wide as it is sinister: the campaign to drive British trade from our shores...
...Coolidge's "Cargo" has the true metaphysical tone of the 17th Century; "Apologia" (Mr. McLane) concludes the verse of the issue...
...Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South America...
...first of the steel cargo ships built by the Government, since the declaration of war, to increase the available tonnage, will be launched in Seattle next Saturday. It has taken only four months to construct her, and already a large number of standardized sister ships are in various stages of completion. Whatever delay there may be in turning out cargo ships is not due to lack of workers or supplies, but to the lack of those enormous plants which are necessary for the construction of even a relatively small vessel. Lloyd George has again urged us to increase our shipbuilding...