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Almost anyone of sensibility is a pushover for old waltz songs on the cornet, and Saroyan is a master of many similar nostalgias. Their potency keeps The Beautiful People from being merely the old charmy game, played by an expert. For, notwithstanding its whimsical deadweight, the inventive, germinal quality in Saroyan is one of the most fertile forces in the U.S. Theater...
Unlikely to get much help from overworked U. S. shipbuilders, the British have done a little better in the market for second-hand ships. Since the war began, England and Canada have bought or arranged to buy 168 old vessels totaling 627,600 tons (deadweight) from U. S. owners (including 36 vessels from World War I's laid-up fleet). Deals are under way now for 45 more, and others may follow. Since almost any seagoing vessel is adequate for use in convoys, which travel slowly, Britain is better off buying old ships at low prices than new ones...
...Fortnight ago Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. sold two cargo ships, aggregating about 19,000 deadweight tons to Great Britain. Of its 52 vessels, 14 are under charter to Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp., carrying the raw material for explosives and fertilizer to the U. S., Hawaii and Japan...
...many as 50 more under charter and Government allotment. At war's end it sold the Moormack for $400,000, later snapped up the Government's offer to take its huge merchant marine off its hands at dirt cheap prices of $10 to $15 a deadweight ton. The advent of World War II found Moore-McCormack big and respectable (capital: $5,000,000), in hock to the Government and worried over what to do with the surplus ships that the provisions of the Neutrality Bill may take out of service. Last week it found an answer...
...that the American Merchant Marine has been living off its fat for the past 15 years; that is, we have been subsisting upon the war-built fleet. . . . Many of our operators built their business on vessels which they secured from the Government at prices as low as $5 a deadweight ton. Who is going to replace these vessels at $200 a ton? The Commission is forced to conclude that from all present indications it will have to be the Government...