Word: shiploads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Into New York harbor last week sailed the first entire shipload of refugees to enter the U.S. under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. "We come with gratitude," said Hans Freer, 34, one of 1,243 refugees aboard the chartered U.S. Navy transport General Langfitt. Freer's arrival with his family amounted to a near miracle of deliverance : his wife had been a Soviet slave laborer, he was buffeted about Europe by Nazis and Communists for 15 years, and for a time it seemed unlikely that many refugees would ever reach the U.S. under the 1953 relief act. Last...
...Corsi planned to recruit 10,000 refugee German farmers for field labor in California, in place of Mexican wetbacks. He hoped to bring in a shipload of 1,000 immigrant Italian cooks and bakers, and maybe a shipload of tailors, too, to come steaming up the Hudson in time for a July 4 picnic. He wanted to short-cut the act's delaying provisions, which require advance guarantees of jobs and housing for refugees. Unfortunately, some of his plans collided with the law as written by Congress; moreover, he initially refused to take his place as McLeod...
Sentimental, fiesta-loving Barcelonians declared a holiday and thronged by the thousands to the waterfront one afternoon last week to welcome home a shipload of all but forgotten men: the last survivors of the ill-fated and ill-famed Blue Division that Franco sent off in 1941 to fight in Hitler's Wehrmacht on the Russian front. Captured by the Russians, the Spanish legionnaires had spent some ten years in Soviet forced-labor camps, were released and sent home as another installment in the Communist peace offensive...
...quite agree," he rumbled, "with the theory that the only way to increase our export of goods is to increase [foreign manufacturers'] opportunity to have their goods admitted into the U.S. I think every shipload of consumers' goods that comes to these shores from Germany, Japan, India, Italy or elsewhere is going to lay idle a corresponding number of American workmen and affect American business in the same ratio...
...demands for wages and pension funds have priced it out of the U.S. market; consumers have turned to oil and gas for cheaper fuel. The sickness was happily concealed immediately after World War II because both European and Asian coal mines were out of commission, and the U.S. exported shipload after shipload of coal to fill the gap. Now foreign mines are going again, and no amount of barter could induce foreign purchasers to pay the price for, and the freight on, U.S. coal. And no greater damage could be inflicted on a shaky, free world economy than to saddle...