Word: antwerp
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...Continental is an ancient tub that served in two world wars, changed hands and names five times. Last week, as she headed from Antwerp to New York, her latest owner had high hopes that she would lead the way to a bright new future. Hard-bitten Operator Arnold Bernstein had twice built up a thriving transatlantic shipping business, both times had been swept...
...traffic with simple, serviceable ships, the lowest tourist rates of any line, and an inexpensive elevator system for carrying automobiles uncrated. A Jew, the Nazis jailed him and confiscated his ships. Released, he went to the U.S., built up a new Bernstein line that ran from New York to Antwerp and the Dutch ports. His ships were sunk during the war. Now, at 58, he is at it again...
With German ports not yet back to normal, Bernstein's prewar route to Belgium and The Netherlands has become one of the U.S.'s main arteries to Europe. Each week, four or five ships of half a dozen lines leave U.S. ports for Antwerp and Rotterdam. Some carry only a tenth of their cargo capacity, and many lose money on the run. But all the lines have the same idea: to entrench themselves for the day when the U.S.-Lowlands route may carry as much as 3,000,000 tons of freight a year between...
...scene is repeated, somewhat more quietly, in proud, sober Ghent and in Bruges, lulled by its gentle chimes, in bustling, muscular Antwerp, in Liège under its pall of soot from the mines and the blast furnaces. Belgium has quietly achieved an almost incredible state: postwar prosperity. What is more, Belgium has largely done it by free enterprise. Or "planned freedom," as Belgians call...
Last week Detroit citizens voted Jeffries out and Van Antwerp in. The U.A.W. score: no runs, no hits, four errors...