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...Shillelagh. For once, the Government had a big shillelagh it could and, apparently, would use to break the strike and keep U.S. transport moving. At his press conference, Harry Truman's thin lips tightened when a reporter asked what he intended to do on June 15. He said he would use the Navy, War Shipping, the Army and the Coast Guard; nothing would be spared to keep the ships going...
...ship of sickness and tragedy. Babies were ill, their mothers panic-stricken, and with reason. Within 36 hours, four infants died at the Army's Fort Hamilton Station Hospital. In the next four days two more had died. (Still another, who had been on the Brazil, a transport which arrived the day before the Vance, died from apparently the same ailment...
...agency lacked not only food but talent. UNRRA's Shanghai office (responsible for relief in the mortally stricken Hunan province) had long been under fire for rank inefficiency. Irate businessmen reported that relief supplies were sold in coastal markets instead of being shipped to the interior. While transport difficulties were admittedly enormous, an able administrator could have shipped much of the stores to starving regions accessible by river...
Nowadays sprawling B.A.'s transport was so old and overburdened that Pedro had to get up an hour early to catch the streetcar to work. To save money, Pedro had also stopped lunching downtown, and that meant another scramble for a ride home. Maria, his wife, knew how to stretch a peso, but the noonday meal seldom varied from the traditional puchero (meat and vegetable stew...
...winter hedonists, was invaded last week by 8,000 teetotaling "messengers." Luxury hotels on the Miami bay-front were packed for the Southern Baptist Convention. They represented the second largest† U.S. Protestant group (5,668,000 members). Their 100th anniversary meeting, postponed by last year's transport crisis, commemorated the split in 1845 of Southern and Northern Baptists over slavery...