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Halifax, on Nova Scotia's southeast coast, was the departure point for convoys in World War I, was leveled on the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, when the French freighter Mont Blanc, loaded with T.N.T., blew up after a collision with the Belgian relief ship Imo. Today Halifax's fine harbor is Britian's convoy point once again, reputedly has been made into a good naval base as well. From its seaplane and land air bases, Canuck pilots fly out to sea on convoy escort and submarine patrol. Nova Scotia is heavily wooded, is connected with...
While the 2,000,000 buyers of the Daily Express were mulling this over, the trim U. S. passenger-carrying freighter Excalibur of 9,359 tons was on an eight-day voyage across the Atlantic, featuring on her list: "Mr. and Mrs. Windsor . . . the American Ambassador to Italy William Phillips and his daughter . . . the American Ambassador to Poland and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. ... the American Minister to The Netherlands and Mrs. George A. Gordon...
Last week the Finnish freighter Mathilda Thordén brought Oscar Penttila home from the wars. Jammed aboard the freighter were 109 returning volunteers, 18 Jewish refugees-and a stink which immediately wafted through the Manhattan press. While most of them went quietly on their way, a handful of the returning warriors growled that they had been shamefully treated: they were fed "slops" from a rolling army field kitchen on the main deck, had to sleep in the ship's suffocating hold...
Contributions to the American National Red Cross War Relief Fund poured in, but at week's end the total was still far below the minimum $20,000,000 which Chairman Norman H. Davis said he must have. A Red Cross mercy ship, the 6,198-ton freighter McKeesport, loaded supplies, got ready to sail from New York City. Already hard-pressed, the American Friends Service Committee, which began operating in France 16 months ago caring for Spanish refugees, expanded its program, appealed for more funds. The American Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which already has no ambulances in Europe, recruited college...
...Manufacturer Grover Loening, famed for his Navy amphibians of the '20s. Months ago, full of the profitable all-freight flights of T. A. C. A. in Central America, of K. L. M. in Europe, of the U. S. Army Air Corps (which delivers engines, propellers, etc. by aerial freighter), Grover Loening set out to convince U. S. air lines they should have their own express-freight corporation. He got nowhere until July 1939, when Railway Express Agency, seeking to formalize its monopoly of the business, suddenly asked CAA for a certificate of convenience and necessity as an air carrier...