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...ship's ballrooms when they were thrown to the floor and heard that horrifying dissonance-unmistakable to anyone-that means a collision at sea. On the Stolt Dagali (which means "Pride of Dagali," a Norwegian town), bound for Newark with a crew of 43 and a cargo of vegetable oil, Seaman Sverre Thun-berg, 19, was jolted awake by that same sound, looked down from his bunk and saw sea water rising fast beneath him; Thunberg grabbed his toothbrush and razor, raced above decks and leaped into a lifeboat, even then being lowered over the side...
Once a fortnight, by United Nations authorization, a truck enters Mount Scopus, loads books from among the 250,000 that remain in the abandoned library, returns via the Mandelbaum Gate and takes its cargo to a striking new 250-acre campus that crowns the Judean Hills of Israel. There, in buildings made of pink limestone quarried on the site, Hebrew University is in the midst of a flourishing rebirth...
...starving Belgians. In London and Paris, he warned the French and English of likely U.S. indignation unless they eased their blockade to facilitate such shipments. After such tactics succeeded, Hoover supervised the shipment of a billion dollars worth of food and clothing to Belgium, directed a fleet of 60 cargo ships and 400 barges, crossed the mine-filled North Sea 40 times himself...
When Lavalette's agents seized 242 lbs. of morphine base concealed in a cargo of goatskins from Turkey eleven months ago, the chief decided enough was enough, set out to nail Cesari once and for all. He disguised a score of Marseille cops as everything from priests and petanque players to taxi drivers and dockers, often had them make quick changes at midday while they shadowed Cesari and his henchmen. Several times they discovered raw morphine on incoming freighters ticketed to Cesari's hirelings (one shipment was packed in a carton of snails). But the police were unable...
...cousins smuggle into the country on a cargo ship. Catherine (Eddie's niece) falls in love with the younger one--blond, a singer, weak, a maker of dresses. "The guy's not right," Eddie cries, and soon he is obsessed with breaking up the match. At last, he anonymously reports the illegal entry to the Immigration Bureau...