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...down the quayside, as unloading began, huge cranes bit into the piles of U.S. goods flowing into Argentina. So great was the jam of U.S. crates that port authorities last week ordered freighters following the Mormacwave to lie in the roadstead till the docks were partly cleared...
...biggest cause of the jam, naturally, is a shortage of liners. Only 13 are now in transatlantic operation v. 73 in 1938. Only two of the 13-the 2,314-passenger Queen Elizabeth and the 1,050-passenger America* are large luxury liners. Seven more liners will be added by fall, including the Mauretania (1,153 passengers) this week and the Queen Mary this summer. By year's end 24 will be sailing. Even so, capacity will be far under prewar. U.S. lines, which alone could accommodate 56,515 prewar, now have room for less than...
Eliot's talk will mark the first time that a Morris Gray lecture has been given in Sanders Theatre. The decision to use the Memorial Hall annex apparently arose from University experience last year, when over 900 students tried to jam into Emerson D to hear W. H. Auden...
...reaching a final, consistent policy decision, if that is their determination, the Masters might well consider that one does not settle a traffic jam by banning traffic but rather by regulating the traffic and building better roads...
Welcome Invasion. Some diehard conservatives look balefully on all this progress. Caught in a midtown traffic jam one day, Geologist Emmet Tatum, a Houston resident for 17 years, cried: "Progress, hell! I wish every one of the bustling so-and-so's would go back where they came from...