Word: shiploads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighteen years, three months and seven days before Pearl Harbor, Japan experienced an earthquake and fires that took 90-odd thousand lives and left disease smoldering in their wake. Some $11,000,000 in cash and many a shipload of relief materials from a sympathetic U.S., commented Herbert H. Gowen in his An Outline History of Japan, "are things no Japanese is ever likely to forget." Japan did not forget. Said a War Department communiqué last week...
Transocean's U.S. managers, Dr. Manfred Zapp and Günther Tonn, were not in court. Two days before the trial opened in Washington, they were released from Ellis Island (in exchange for two U.S. newsmen- "detained" in Germany) to sail with a shipload of Axis consuls on the U.S.S. West Point (TIME, July 28). Nor could Transocean be compelled to pay its $1,000 fine, $15,000 court costs. For when this U.S. branch of Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry closed down officially on July 10, its till was neatly empty...
Last week another shipload of troops sailed from Lisbon for the Azores, the third contingent that has gone there in the last three months. In Lisbon it was announced that Portugal's President, General Oscar de Fragosa Carmona, would also sail July 20 for a month's inspection tour of the Azores. Thus did Portugal serve notice that any U.S. attempt to occupy the islands as strategic outposts would be resisted...
...days after the Conference closed, Britain's Food Minister, Lord Woolton, urged U.S. citizens to "do without" some of their milk, cream, cheese, sugar, canned salmon and meat, send them to Britain to relieve "an unhappy and dull diet." Next day, the first shipload of U.S. Lend-Lease food - eggs, cheese, flour - arrived safely in England...
...Gneisenau (each 26,000 tons, each faster and better-armed than the late pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec), were indeed at large and as far west as the 42nd meridian. Displeased with the scare, the Axis press nevertheless aggravated it by jubilating at the alleged sinking of the first shipload of U. S. armaments bound for Britain under the Lend-Lease...