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Furtive Voyage. Listed on the manifest as "steel rods, optical glass and laboratory supplies," the arms, in 15,000 cases, were loaded on the freighter Alfhem in the Baltic port of Stettin, now a part of Poland. Once through the Skagerrak and out of the foggy Baltic, the vessel acted like a ship carrying hot cargo. First she laid a course south for Dakar, French West Africa, but radioed orders changed the destination to Curaçao, in the Dutch West Indies. Nearing Curaçao, the Alfhem was again diverted, this time to Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Finally the ship...
...Investment of private capital should be fostered. Under the present system, the Government pays the cost of shipbuilding, sells the finished vessel to the operator at a 40% to 45% discount (the construction differential). Murray wants shipowners to use private cash to build new ships, have the Government contribute only the construction differential. The Government would guarantee up to 100% of the shipbuilding loans...
There is something vaselike about the immobility of Toledano himself, though he is far from being an empty vessel. He must sit and wait for the visual impressions which are at least half of any artist's material. But the impressions obviously crowd in upon him, to spark a fantasy life far richer than that of more mobile but less perceptive artists...
...used in warfare, the way is opened to a general relapse to ancient methods of savagery." The Washington Post: ". . . Since all the nations at war have violated some compact or other . . . suffocation by gas is as decent a method of murder as blowing up trenches by mines, torpedoing a vessel or dropping bombs from an airship...
Down the ways at Quincy, Mass, last week went the largest cargo vessel ever built in the U.S., and the largest tanker in the world: the 45,130-ton World Glory, with a capacity of 16.5 million gals.-enough to fill 2,062 railroad tank cars. Built by Bethlehem Steel at a cost of $10 million, the huge tanker was the latest ship to join the fleet of Stavros Spiros Niarchos, 44. With 39 ships totaling nearly 1,000,000 tons on the seas, Niarchos claims to be the biggest independent tanker operator in the world, an honor that...