Word: convoying
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...week about Alaska. Japanese troops invaded the Aleutians six weeks ago; and at that time some military experts argued that the Japs must be dislodged within 60 days, or the job would become enormously difficult to do at all. The Japs were unquestionably at work: Tokyo claimed a big convoy had got through to Alaska without losses; the U.S. Navy claimed to have sunk three, possibly four destroyers and damaged another, probably out of the same convoy...
...only to stab at her vitals, but to smother her to death: to cut the remaining routes by which she receives supplies from her allies. Far north of the probing German armies last week the German Navy risked its precious little neck to go prowling for a huge Allied convoy...
Making for Archangel (Murmansk has been bombed useless), the convoy was churning toward the Barents Sea. Off North Cape it ran into trouble. For several days all that was known of the encounter was the Berlin radio's growing claims, first that nine, later that 32 out of 38 ships had been sunk, with an escorting U.S. cruiser tossed in for good measure...
...SPEEDBOATS SINK BRITISH FREIGHTERS FROM CONVOY...
...tons of sugar awaiting shipment in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the 330,000 tons of Colombian and Central American coffee normally imported each year by the U.S. At transfer terminals in the Lesser Antilles they may even pick up cargoes brought by convoy from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, cutting the convoy voyage by as much as half...