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GRACE LINE will build two 20-knot passenger-cargo ships under the Federal Maritime Board's $385 million shipbuilding and repair program (TIME, Aug. 9). Grace will spend about $40 million, of which 50% may be Government subsidy, for 300-passenger, 16,000-ton ships to replace its Santa Rosa and Santa Paula on the run from North Atlantic ports to the Caribbean...
...able to take away my spirit of optimism, because I will always be a ray of sunshine, a creator of gladness and master of myself. I have been a successful champion wrestler because I'm brave as a lion, strong as a mule, tough as a pine knot and sharp as a razor." He added: "I have the gift...
...last week printed a special list of 85 "Forbidden Words" for his staff. Among the banned words and phrases: dragnet, aired, bared (for revealed), legal bombshell, probe (for investigate), sweeping investigations, innocent bystander, fair sex, goodies, kiddies, smoking weapon, dropped dead, ill-gotten gains, minced no words, nuptial knot, socialite, tongue-lashing, whirlwind courtship...
...last year grossed $19.2 million, has in mind a system similar to the "sea trains" used by the railroads to carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...
Ships steaming across the North Atlantic from west to east like to keep in the Gulf Stream, which increases their speed by a knot or so at no cost. Pan American's Stratocruisers, flying from Tokyo to Honolulu, are taking the same advantage of the "jet stream," which is the Gulf Stream of the upper air. Last week one of Pan Am's clippers made the Tokyo-Honolulu run in a record 9 hr. 18 min. Its average, point-to-point speed was 422 rn.p.h., and 123 m.p.h. was a gift of the friendly jet stream...