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...chains and the slave driver's whip; and so the place was called Freetown. But because of its malarial climate this black man's refuge was also called "The White Man's Grave." In World War II Freetown has earned a new distinction: it is the busiest spot in West Africa...
White House orders for a 2,000,000-ton shipping pool for aid to Britain last week (see p. 15) caught U.S. ship lines in the midst of their busiest, most harassed period in history. On all the seven seas except the North Atlantic, U.S. shipping has tried to take over from the flagging British the great task of moving the bulk of the world's freight. Before war began the U.S. overseas fleet (then 1,749,689 active tons, 87% over age) often ran almost empty on its Government subsidies, carried only around 30% of the nation...
Ships and Sheep. Turning the problem over in his mind as he sat at his desk in the Casa Rosada,* Ramên Castillo had only to look out of the window to see one miserable aspect of it: Buenos Aires har bor, once South America's busiest port, almost deserted of shipping, with 18 German and Italian vessels lying at anchor as reminders of the pressure on him. Once an average of 150 ships a day put into Buenos Aires. Now there are about 26 a week. Of 400,000 tons of meat which Britain contracted for six months...
...head of the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair, who could fly his own airplane, who was a field official at two or three big-league football games each season (as he still is), the little man with the quarterdeck voice whom sailormen called "the busiest guy in the Navy." How could he retire? He hadn't retired. Few days later he was on the new Commission, year later its boss...
...busiest corner, Brattle and Boylston Streets converge at a weird angle. Opposite, if there is such a place, Mass. Ave. swerves through the northern arm of the Avenue, forming a dangerous and traditional bumping point, while Brattle surges through to the eastern arm to create another awkward rendezvous. The climax to this engineer's nightmare is the subway entrance brooding in the middle. With these non-Euclidean facilities, the Square tries to serve two purposes--a shopping center for students and a transfer station for in-town travellers. Twelve thousand outsiders shift El cars every day. Six hundred busses carry...