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...December 1949, the 7,836-ton Empire Marshal put out from London to pick up war materials at French ports for hard-pressed French soldiers fighting Communists in Indo-China. At Dunkirk, Communist dockers refused to load the ship. Propaganda leaflets, mysteriously appearing in the crew's quarters, read: "Young Frenchmen are killed every day far from their homes and country in this criminal colonial war because American imperialists want to use Indo-China as a strong point against Free China and Soviet Russia...
...Principle. Last week, her Navy contract ended, the Empire Marshal lay at a Yokohama dock, her rusty, barnacle-encrusted hull high out of the water. Skipper William Lamont returned from the agent's office with the news that the Empire Marshal had been ordered to Dairen to load soybeans for England. A crew member yelled, "That's Red China!" Unanimously, the 58 crewmen-four Poles, three expatriate Chinese, one German, 50 Scots and Englishmen-applied the lesson they had learned from the Communists on the way to Indo-China. They voted not to take the ship...
...from foot to foot in 15° weather as they watched the hearings through TV-store windows. In Minneapolis, bars and restaurants with TV sets were thronged even in the mornings. In New York, the Consolidated Edison Co. had to switch on an extra generator to carry the daytime load of TV sets...
When the new government lessened the tax load on foreigners in March 1950, adventurous U.S. investors put $15 million into the new nation. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. is putting up a $2,500,000 auto plant in the Haifa Bay area; Philco Corp. has built a refrigerator plant near Tel Aviv; General Shoe Corp. and General Tire & Rubber Co. each has a factory...
When the blunt-bowed oreboat, S.S Bethore, nosed into its mooring at Sparrows Point, Md. last week, the red carpet was rolled out by Bethlehem Steel Corp executives. The ship carried the first load of Venezuelan iron ore (22,000 tons) ever to be brought to the U.S. The ore came from Beth Steel's open pit mine in the state of Bolivar. Bethlehem eventually expects to get 3,000,000 tons a year for its big Sparrows Point steel mill in return for the ten years of work and $50 million poured into the Venezuelan project...