Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born Ann Vickers, daughter of a well-to-do businessman, who had marched to the army from the Episcopal Church. In 1914 he sailed aboard the Empress of Ireland for a London convention with 300 of Canada's top Salvationists. In a thick St. Lawrence River fog, a freighter cut the Empress in two; she capsized and 200 of the Salvationists were among the 1,024 passengers and crewmen who drowned. But Ernest, a powerful swimmer, survived...
...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...
There was a peremptory cable from the master of a U.S. freighter: "Was my entry Shanghai legal or illegal: if illegal, I request notice. If legal, insist upon suitable protection." The freighter Sir John Franklin was the second to be fired on in the past two weeks, while trying to run the Nationalist blockade into Chinese Communist ports...
...State Department was also obliged to deliver a formal protest to the other side in China's war. A U.S. freighter, the Flying Cloud, had been shot at by a destroyer escort while running the Nationalist blockade off the China coast. The protest was bound to be mild, since the department does not acknowledge the blockade but looks upon it benignly...
Economically, Dairen is almost completely prostrate. The port itself, once capable of berthing 50 to 60 ships, now handles about one foreign freighter and two Russian ships weekly...