Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, at Escanaba, Mich., ore piled up from rail deliveries across the tip of Wisconsin. Freighter captains cursed. Fifteen ore boats nudged each other in the two-dock harbor which can load only six at a time. Escanaba had more than the weather to complain about: only recently WPB stopped work on a $58,000,000 War Department program to enlarge Escanaba loading facilities, and to provide a large-scale alternative route in case bombs or sabotage knocked...
...agent), flunked out after two years. Informed by two Philadelphia art schools that he could never learn to draw, he taught himself the piano and the saxophone, thought he would support himself as a Paris art student by jazz playing. But he was forcibly removed from a Europe-bound freighter by Papa's private detectives...
...after Land gave his testimony, Winston Churchill in London was indicating why. One reason that shipping losses have been so big, said Mr. Churchill, is the slow speed of transatlantic convoys. In part, this is because both Britain and the U.S. have pressed into service many an old tramp freighter. But, as Navy men know well, the indictment also falls against new ships coming out of U.S. yards-notably the famous Liberty...
...days later, lurking in the same waters, the Wahoo sighted a fat Jap convoy. First a freighter was sunk, next a troop-jammed transport, then a tanker; finally, with the Wahoo's last torpedo, a second freighter. The sweep was clean. Later the Wahoo, its supply of torpedoes gone, had to let another convoy pass unharmed. Said Lieut. Commander Dudley W. Morton, skipper of the broom-flaunting Wahoo: ''When you have no torpedoes you sure feel naked...
...bomber, droning through the Arctic sky one day last week, spotted a Japanese freighter where no Jap freighter ought to be. Said the Navy's laconic communiqué: "The ship was left burning and was later seen to sink." The Navy offered no conjecture as to what the ship was doing 110 miles north and east of Kiska, in the Bering...