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...Manhattan dock one morning last week, the U. S. Lines' passenger ship, American Trader, had her cargo stowed, her gangplank up, all else in readiness to sail with 53 passengers to Europe. Once safely across the Atlantic, the American Trader, under special orders from the U. S. State Department, was to take aboard stranded U.S. citizens, get them home with all speed...
...this indicated that the course was clearly charted. Avoid Scylla, the Russian Army, and Charybdis, the U. S. Fleet, and sail straight through to victory in China. Big news of the week was getting past Scylla...
When her submarine-shy crew last week refused to sail the Greek freighter Thermoni home from Seattle, Wash., its captain received an odd request. Fifteen Polish, German and British seamen, stranded in Seattle since the outbreak of World War II, and spoiling to get home to join their armies, had agreed on a working armistice, wanted to man the Thermoni and head her for Europe. British Seaman Charles Home, whose father died fighting in World War I, hopefully suggested that, once in Liverpool, his German mates might be permitted to proceed unmolested...
...design classes, boats must be identical not only in hull lines, sail area and rigging but even in the minutest detail of equipment. These classes are increasing in great numbers because: 1) one-design boats are cheaper; 2) their racing life is prolonged, since they cannot be outbuilt; 3) the boat is reduced to an instrument (like a tennis racket or golf club) for the display of individual skill...
...Government considered and rejected the idea of convoying U. S. ships in danger zones. It ordered U. S. ships, instead of slinking from U-boats or fighting back: to sail straight courses; at night to advertise themselves by a searchlight playing on the flags at their mastheads; to wear no camouflage but to paint the Stars and Stripes on their decks and hatch covers, to paint their names and flag large on their sides...