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...Swedish wood-pulp exporters were all ready for V-E day. Long before Germany surrendered they had loaded some 100,000 tons of pulp into ships prepared to sail for the U.S. Their warehouses were stocked with 700,000 tons of pulp for export to world markets...
...Taylor, president of the American Merchant Marine Institute, appraised the task of supplying our rapidly expanding forces in the Pacific. His estimate: exclusive of Navy needs, when our service personnel and fighting men reach a strength of 3,000,000, a fleet of 180 deep-laden tankers must sail from West Coast ports every month on the long, slow trek across the vast Pacific...
...tail was a 19-year-old gunner. When he heard the crash he made for the escape hatch. It was jammed. He tried to get through the rear window: too small. Long minutes later, Belgian peasants saw the tailpiece sail to earth. They picked the unconscious gunner from the wreck, got him to a hospital...
hospital ships to sail within 15 miles of their base at Truk) was suddenly thrown overboard. Out of a clear moonlit night a Kamikaze plane dove into the U.S.S. Comfort, steaming southeast of Okinawa with its lights ablaze, in accordance with international law. The crippled 700-bed mercy ship, with 29 dead, limped toward port...
...contracts: 1) to convert three cargo ships into passenger-cargo liners at $4 million each for postwar service to Scandinavia under the Moore & McCormick houseflag; 2) to build three de luxe passenger liners (cost $5 million each) for the Mississippi Shipping Company Inc.'s Delta Line, to sail from Gulf ports to the East Coast of South America. ¶Son Robert, Jr. was in Brazil to drum up orders for new ships for the antique, but vital, Brazilian merchant marine. ¶ Smart and young, Ingalls' engineers were putting the finishing touches on designs for a new diesel-electric...