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Bevin had his British anchor to windward; he was firm about Britain's role in western Europe: "I cannot help it if people have groundless suspicion. . . . But I must. . . go on with the task of building up friendship with our immediate neighbors...
Strictly Filthy. The destroyer tagged the Jap ship for two days; when she sailed from Wake, the Americans prepared to board her again. From 1,000 yards to windward, the crew of the Murray was sickened by the stench of sickness, "like the sweet, sickly odor of rotten fruit...
...Ingalls' anchors to windward: ¶ Two fat contracts: 1) to convert three cargo ships into passenger-cargo liners at $4 million each for postwar service to Scandinavia under the Moore & McCormick houseflag; 2) to build three de luxe passenger liners (cost $5 million each) for the Mississippi Shipping Company Inc.'s Delta Line, to sail from Gulf ports to the East Coast of South America. ¶Son Robert, Jr. was in Brazil to drum up orders for new ships for the antique, but vital, Brazilian merchant marine. ¶ Smart and young, Ingalls' engineers were putting the finishing...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, whose high-school playmates called him "Angles" because he knew all of them, figured a new one last week: his own music-publishing firm in Manhattan-an anchor to windward against the day when his bobby-soxed fans will be wearing garters...
...wails from the steel industry that it is selling many basic products such as plates at less than cost, it managed to hold the line fairly well. U.S. Steel was off slightly, from $17,406,597 to $17,027,616. Bethlehem, with its profitable shipbuilding still an anchor to windward, managed to push up its net a little, to $6,432,538. Only Jones & Laughlin fell far behind, from...