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...freighter Klim Voroshilov, flying the Hammer & Sickle, wallowed into Marseilles harbor. She had come from Nikolaev, on the Black Sea, with the first 5,234 tons of the 500,000 tons of wheat promised to France by Russia...
...seemed to have confused with Hawaii, was still not a regularly scheduled stop on any airline. But by plane or boat, every country on earth was once more open to U.S. travelers, packing their bags for the biggest travel boom ever. Even Japanese ports were reopened. Fare by freighter...
...doldrum days between World Wars I & II, Louis Slobodkin, then a broth of a boy, now a ranking U.S. sculptor, decided to ship as a deckhand on the tramp freighter S.S. Hermanita, plying between the Port of New York and Latin America. Fo'castle Waltz is his 352-page total recall of this nautical episode...
Born 33 years ago in Scranton, Pa., he went to Hotchkiss where he edited the school paper, and then on to Williams from which he graduated in 1934. Summers he filled in by working as a deckhand on a Grace Line freighter, by police reporting for the Scranton Tribune (to help pay his way through college), by taking a course in International Law at the League of Nations at Geneva on a history scholarship...
Fritz Kuhn, porky, peccant (embezzling) ex-Bund leader, ex-U.S. citizen, got a free freighter trip to Germany along with some 500 other deported compatriots...