Word: inbounder
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...Merchant Ship Plotting Room of the grey old Admiralty off London's Trafalgar Square, a number of officers and clerks bustle every morning, plucking out and sticking in little colored pins. Each pin represents a ship; its color designates whether it is in convoy or independent, whether inbound or outbound...
Just before dawn the trawler North Star, inbound for Boston with a load of fish, caught sight of the Mary E. O'Hara's masts. Five of the crew were still hanging on. One man slipped off even as the North Star hove to alongside, but he was fished out alive. Another, frozen to his perch, had to be pried loose...
Last week the Plunkett, Gilmer and Paul Jones asked identity and destination of two more vessels off Tampico, this time Latin-American merchantmen: the Mexican tanker Cerro Azul, inbound in ballast on a coastwise trip, and the Honduran freighter Ceiba out of New Orleans. In a story from Tampico smelling rankly of Nazi propaganda it was reported that the ships were boarded by U. S. sailors, their captains questioned, their papers checked, their cargo registries examined...
Meanwhile with no trucks to cart the goods away from the waterfront, inbound cargoes piled up on the San Francisco docks. Warehousemen and longshoremen continued to work but jobs dwindled as the available storage space gradually filled up, and a delegation of longshoremen's wives waited on San Francisco's Mayor Rossi with pleas to end the war. When shippers started to direct cargoes to Oakland and other Bay ports, Beck simply widened his embargo. Outbound freight was not hit so hard because it moves to the docks largely by rail, not trucks...
...plant's general manager until 12:30 a. m. Sunday to comply with the shut-down order. Nothing happened. Forthwith the colonel posted troopers at the gates with instructions to allow no one to enter, though anyone was free to leave. Pennsylvania R.R. was forbidden to deliver inbound shipments. After an eleven-hour siege Bethlehem officially surrendered, under "duress" and still vigorously protesting the illegality of the Governor's action. The company was allowed to keep 900 men for maintenance and minimum operations in a few key divisions...