Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only three vessels were torpedoed by Nazi submarines last week. Yet the toll of merchant tonnage and civilian lives taken at sea by Germany was the greatest for any week of the war to date. Twenty-one ships totalling 93,300 tons of Allied and neutral shipping went to the bottom. More than 200 persons were killed, some 100 of them in one sinking which rivaled the Athenia as the war's foremost "atrocity...
...liner Washington at Manhattan last week stepped a Wisconsin-born Britisher who looks more than a little like David Lloyd George: London's most famous merchant, 74-year-old H. Gordon Selfridge. To newshawks at the ship he said: "The opportunity to achieve . . . has been eliminated all over the world . . . everyone will be on salary . . . enterprise will be abandoned...
...First of all, we should permit a volunteer army to be raised here to fight on the side of the Allies," he said. "Our navy should be used to convoy every available American merchant vessel in order to carry food to France and England. Moreover, we should produce a large number of planes and train a huge corps of pilots in case Russia and Italy join Germany...
LONDON--Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that Great Britain must be prepared to cope with a fleet of 100 German U-boats in a "long and unrelenting struggle" on the high seas to protect British merchant shipping...
...passenger-freight service to South America. For that line, by late 1940, Moore-McCormack will have 14-$40,000,000 worth-new 9,000-to 12,000-ton, 16½-to 18-knot passenger-freight ships, constructed under the Maritime Commission's program for rebuilding the U. S. merchant marine. Seven of the new ships have already been launched. Faced with the loss of its Scandinavian-Baltic trade (American Scantic Line) for the duration of the war, Moore-McCormack might well get rid of all the old ships it can. So might the rest of the U. S. merchant...