Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest statistics available. The bureau took the total tonnage of each carrier (e.g., trucks, boats and railroads) and multiplied it by the miles carried, thus got a comparative ton-mile figure for all carriers for all freight. On this basis, railroads totted up 672 billion ton-miles, river and harbor boats 182 billion ton-miles, and trucks 152 billion, or 15% of the total...
...Kurt Carlsen, a 1952 hero for sticking to the last on the sinking Flying Enterprise II, bobbed up in the news again. His new Flying Enterprise smacked its 8,000 tons into the 7,000-ton British freighter Canara while tugs were nudging her toward a berth in Bombay Harbor, India. Damage to the Canara was "extensive," but the Enterprise came off with a mere five-foot gash above the water line. "I feel heartbroken," moaned Carlsen. "If there's one man in the world who does not want anything to happen to the Flying Enterprise...
...longtime Republican U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1917-49); of a heart ailment; in Wadena, Minn. Norwegian-born, he succeeded Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the flyer, in Congress, cast his first vote in 1917 against a declaration of war on Germany, was a leading isolationist before and after Pearl Harbor, stoutly fought the Democrats and all their works on almost every issue,* including the easing of immigration restrictions...
...tugs warped the 27,000-ton carrier Philippine Sea to dockside in Pearl Harbor last week, reporters clambered aboard to do a story about a war-weary ship and crew. The Philippine Sea was the first carrier ordered from the U.S. to Korean waters, and the first one to reach Hawaii after the armistice. Her planes had flown 7,243 combat sorties; she claims more landings and more catapult shots than any other carrier off Korea. But on the huge flight deck, the newsmen found the ship's band dressed in colorful kimonos and coolie hats, giving out with...
Young Bill's father, who founded the old China Weekly Review, had been a courageous voice of freedom in the Far East. After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese punished him with a prison sentence that brought starvation, gangrene and the loss of ten toes, and hastened his death. Bill revived the weekly as a monthly, but turned it into a mouthpiece for the Chinese Reds. In recent issues, the Review called the Rosenberg trial a "frame-up," Point Four an "imperialist plot," and had "verified" U.S. "germ warfare" in Korea...