Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritime Commission has indicated a postwar fleet of approximately 15,000,000 tons. A great part of this tonnage will be operated in the coastal and intercoastal trade and does not receive operating subsidies, since such trades are barred to foreign flag ships. Furthermore, only about 35% of American vessels operating in liner service in foreign trade receive operation subsidy. In 1938 American flag tonnage (dry cargo vessels) in foreign trade was about 3,200,000 tons, and it is estimated that if we carried 50% of our foreign commerce, we would require only 5,800,000 tons. On this...
...every sound was audible-the twitter of birds in new-leafed shade trees; the soft, rhythmic scuffing of massed, marching men in the street; the clattering exhaust of armored scout cars moving past, their machine guns cocked skyward. And the beat of muffled drums. As Franklin Roosevelt's flag-draped coffin passed slowly by on its black caisson, the hoofbeats of the white horses, the grind of iron-rimmed wheels on pavement overrode all other sounds...
...last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start him home...
...45th fought in the searing heat of burning buildings. Finally U.S. airmen went to work in earnest, bombed Aschaffenburg until there was nothing left to bomb or shell. Then Nazi von Lambert did what he had killed others for suggesting: he came out with a white flag...
When new planes are available, Aerovias has ambitious plans for expansion. In addition to more routes in Mexico, the Mexican flag line expects to push south to Panama. It will also ask the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to land at Miami and Los Angeles. How much more Braniff will get in its own country, to add to its well-fed inland service, Braniff Airways, Inc. could predict no more accurately than the dozens of other U.S. lines ascramble for new routes. But one thing was certain: Braniff's Mexican cousin had its start, was in competition in Mexico...