Word: steamer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task to guarantee that the Canal will remain open while we still permit commercial traffic through it: Yet it is unthinkable that we would suppress commercial traffic. So we always have a hazard there. . . ."What General Marshall had in mind was the danger that some supposedly innocent tanker, tramp steamer or fishing boat on its way through the locks might suddenly turn out to be a floating time bomb. How acute, ever-present and unpredictable that peril is, the Army learned last week when its own transport, the U. S. S. Republic, docked in Panama City...
...script is rather incpt patchwork, composed of three O'Ncill plays and a war background to fill the gaps. The action takes place aboard a British tramp steamer and in wet harbor streets infested with demi-monde and cops. All kinds of human fates are thrown together on the S.S. Glencairn, drifting about helplessly on the long voyage that seldom ends at home. John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, and Ian Hunter are three of the ragged, whisky-minded seafarers whose whole characters are unfolded step by step. There is frustration in all of them, the frustration that drove them...
...much the fault of its advance rooters as it is of the film. Director Ford filled it with respectful piety for the hard impersonality of the sea. In doing so he built 103 minutes of photoplay around a simple character study of the S.S. Glencairn, a slow tramp steamer bound from the West Indies to Britain with a cargo of munitions. During most of the voyage, slight, sensitive Photographer Gregg Toland's camera is turned on the seamen who inhabit the forecastle-a burly, brawling Irishman (Thomas Mitchell); a big, boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit...
Biggest strategic weakness of Alaska, now that it is being armed, is its lack of communications with the rest of the U. S. Machinery, food and other freight comes largely by steamer from the U. S. Engineers have long planned a road through Canada (the route is shown by a dotted line) to enable supplies to be trucked in three days from Seattle to Fairbanks. The cost is estimated at $25,000,000 for building 1,200 miles of 24-ft. roadway through the wilderness. With new U. S.-Canadian defense cooperation, the road may be built...
...Daladier, Mandel, Campinchi and Delbos had fled from Bordeaux on June 20 on the steamer Massilia, a few days before armistice agreements were concluded with Germany and Italy. Reaching Casablanca, they were held on their ship by Moroccan authorities acting on orders from Bordeaux, to await the Petain Government's decision. In Marseille last week to stand trial, sagging-jawed Daladier and his fellow scapegoats learned that they were the principal victims of a new Government decree withdrawing citizenship and confiscating the property of all citizens who left French territory between May 10 and June 30 without a valid...