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...first mercy ship to carry food, medical supplies, cigarets and sweets to U.S. fighting men in Japanese prison camps is about to sail from San Francisco harbor, the neat Swedish freighter Kanangoora, fresh out of drydock with huge red crosses on her whitened sides. Into her hold will go $1,000,000 in supplies- and the love and prayers of thousands of wives, parents, sisters and sweethearts...
...they sailed, or prepared to sail last week to the most desperate war in U.S. history, hundreds of thousands of young soldiers were singing...
...market in Provincetown-first in, highest prices. "They left their fishing grounds with a 'keep 'er full and drive 'er.' They kept on canvas until the water came around the helmsman's neck. They tied their halyards aloft so they couldn't shorten sail. A coastwise steamer came to anchor in Provincetown Harbor, reporting, 'Had a fishing boat pass me sailing under water...
...sail came back to the Caribbean last week as the U.S., with RFC cash, set out to build a thousand new wooden schooners in the little shipyards of the West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia and Central America. First contract for six 300-to 500-ton schooners has been let to a shipyard in the Dominican Republic. The second will go to Cuba...
Already old two-and three-masters are being rerigged and recaulked; fishing and lumber schooners are bidding for commercial cargoes (and getting them); and importers all along the Caribbean are beginning to specify "Dispatch via sail" when steamers are not available. This means slower and more uncertain voyages, higher insurance, and cargo rates that are all the traffic will bear; but in many cases it may be the only means of getting badly needed supplies...