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...they owed their country their lives and $610 travel expenses each. On Oct. 19, in the Portuguese-Indian harbor of Mormugão, they moved from the dreary Japanese freighter Teia Marti to the Gripsholm's marvels of tablecloth, roast turkey and freedom. In the opposite direction marched 1,330 Japanese repatriates, straight from U.S. camps, healthy-looking, well-dressed...
...mushrooming U.S. merchant marine (50 million tons in 1944) is about to add a new and useful type of vessel-a small (4,000 ton), fast (12 knot), and economical (diesel-powered) freighter...
...example, one of the new writers in Foreign News is a veteran correspondent whose overseas experience began when he ran away to sea at 16 and worked his way around the world as radio operator on a freighter. After Harvard he worked for the United Press in London, for the New York Times in pre-Hitler Berlin. He spent one summer traveling all over Russia without official guide and in "hard" class railway coaches-slept out-of-doors or in peasants' cottages-saw the Soviet Union almost with the eyes of a native-told the story of his trek...
...Boats. The LST, 327 ft. long and 5,500 tons, is really a medium-sized freighter whose bow gapes open like jaws to discharge cargo. Developed late in 1941, the vessel was a peculiarly tough problem in design, since it had to be capable of carrying and loading hundreds of tons of tanks, seaworthy enough to cross oceans under its own power, shallow-draft enough to put the tanks directly ashore. It carries a full operational crew and is usually commanded by a senior grade lieutenant, Navy or Coast Guard...
Early one morning last week FBI agents rapped sharply on the doors of five Detroit houses, made five arrests. Agents in New York boarded a freighter, made a sixth. Four of the prisoners-a countess, a fashionable doctor, a social worker, a sailor-looked to FBI like the shadiest spy ring yet rounded...