Word: shiploads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week when I was aboard the Solace Dr. Richmond Beck of Huntington, Long Island, a psychiatrist, was the embarkation officer. It was 7 o'clock in the evening and the Solace was receiving her second shipload of Saipan wounded...
...hour before the plane was due in Chicago, the pilot found the landing gear stuck, informed his shipload of brass hats of the choice before them: parachute or a crash landing. While the passengers worried away an hour preparing for the next-to-worst, the mechanic got the gear unstuck. Among the relieved passengers: WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson...
...evidence of the good faith of the prisoner exchange, a shipload of nearly 800 British prisoners from Italy arrived last week in Turkey, weary after months of imprisonment, glad to be free but, above all, hungry. When the Italian tankers get back from The Netherlands West Indies, ships full of Italians will get home, weary, glad and about to be hungry...
...Food Minister Lord Woolton warned Britain that bread might be rationed if the public did not cooperate and eat more potatoes. Said he: "Idle nibblers of bread are nibbling at [our] very lives." A Food Ministry official estimated that the average Briton wastes three ounces daily-which means a shipload of wheat every twelve days, at a time when Allied shipping is shorter than ever...
...returned last week from an inspection tour of Casablanca and Dakar, to which, said a Vichy spokesman, "circumstances give very special importance." Admiral Darlan professed himself satisfied with what he saw. Vichy's control over the forces at Dakar was strengthened by the arrival in France of a shipload of 1,300 wives and children of Dakar residents and soldiers. This brought the total number of such potential hostages in France...