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...bill authorizing the Maritime Commission to take over and use all foreign vessels now idle in U.S. harbors. Thus, with a pen squiggle, the U.S. became the prospective owner of 84 ships, totaling 459,140 tons. Topped by the $80,000,000 Normandie, now lying idle at her dock in the Hudson River, they also included freighters and six tankers-to help replace the 50 oilers recently turned over to British...
...fanciest merchantman ever to slide down a U.S. way, she had been conceived by the Maritime Commission for the blue-ribbon North Atlantic passenger trade. But before her birth was complete, World War II and the Neutrality Act closed in her horizons. Since she left her fitting-out dock ten months ago, her life has been a pleasant tedium of Caribbean cruises. Last week adventure crooked an imperious finger to this immaculate loafer of the Antilles. She was drafted into the U.S. Navy...
...mortgage for $7,328,140, the Maritime Commission the rest. But even after throwing out the Government's ante, the America cost U.S. Lines $850,000 annually in depreciation ($600,000) and interest ($250,000). And that was without even moving her from the dock...
...with his staff and with those of the Greek, Belgian and Polish legations, and set out, followed by three trucks loaded with luggage and documents. Instead of going to Cattaro, the motorcade proceeded to Gruz, the port for Dubrovnik, 65 miles up the coast. It was waiting on the dock for the submarine to appear when the Italian Army entered the town. Last week the British had a tale to tell about the daring of the Regent, but the Italians had the Minister...
...though badly outnumbered, replied. The Iraqi claimed destroying 26 planes on the ground, but other planes took off and bombed the Iraqi guns. The same day the British in Basra warned the Iraqi troops there to withdraw. They agreed to, but did not. The British seized the Basra airport, dock area and power station. This week the British began a systematic bombing of Iraqi airports, claimed to have destroyed most of the Iraq Air Force...