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...turned, it was essentially a defensive measure. The Russians could build and doubtless were building their own hydrogen bomb. If undeterred by threat of retaliation in kind, the Russians could deliver it by aircraft almost anywhere in the U.S.; by submarine, or in a sneak attack from a commercial freighter in the harbor, they could use it to devastate the great coastal cities...
...International Settlement police force in Shanghai, was 19 when the Communists swept into his native city last year. Afraid to stay, he stowed away for the U.S. on the American President liner General Gordon. He was found, put ashore in San Francisco, sent back across the Pacific on a freighter bound for Tientsin. He jumped ship in Japan, was surrendered to the U.S. Army and put back on the U.S.-bound General Gordon. Last week in San Francisco immigration authorities were waiting for another ship on which to re-deport him to China. Lawyers of the American President Line shuddered...
...Hamburg-Amerika Line has been paying pensions to 2,000 of its old employees. To keep going, the line has resorted to all kinds of makeshifts-it tied the bombed passenger-freighter St. Louis to a dock, ran it as a restaurant-hotel. It has also been operating a mail-order agency, a resort hotel, an insurance company and a fleet of harbor tugs...
...confusion of policy and reality in China gave the State Department another embarrassing problem this week. A fiery Danish-American named Hans Isbrandtsen, the ruggedest individual among U.S. shipowners, sent his American freighter, Flying Arrow, through the Nationalist blockade to deliver his cargo to the Chinese Communists. Two Nationalist destroyer escorts opened up on it and rifled 30 to 40 shells into the ship without hurting anyone (after missing with the first 38 shots). Then the Nationalist warships hovered by the crippled freighter...
...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...