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...week's end, the first wave of replies came in. Sweden promised an ambulance unit "completely in line with Swedish tradition," Israel declined to send ground troops "because our neighbors still obstinately refuse to make peace," Norway offered merchant shipping, Egypt nothing at all. Warships from Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Britain had already joined the U.S.-led naval force. British, and Australian planes are also in action. There were indications that Canada, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan and the Philippines would send troops...
From windows of San Francisco hilltop buildings last week, office workers saw six rust-splotched cargo vessels towed through the bay. They were the first of 16 merchant ships which the Military Sea Transportation Service had ordered yanked from its "mothball" reserve fleet...
...vessels will be reconditioned and possibly loaded and ready to make the 5,000-mile trip to Korea by the end of this week. Before the Senate was a bill to provide $25 million to de-mothball 134 more ships, thus quickly boost the nation's whole active merchant fleet to 1,390 vessels. This would be enough to handle the immediate needs of a localized war and leave 2,074 other mothballed merchant ships in reserve...
Hardtack. But U.S. shipping was far from ready for a graver emergency. The nation's shipyards have not completed a single ocean-going passenger or cargo-passenger vessel in the last 23 months. As a result, the U.S. merchant fleet is slipping into middle age (the average ship is eight years old), and the once-mighty U.S. shipbuilding industry is growing skeleton-thin on hardtack. With just 19 ocean-going ships under construction last week, the U.S. has dropped to ninth place among the nations of the world in tonnage of new ships on order; even conquered Japan...
...makes choice of his man, which is one that has the greatest mouth, whom he brings to the market with a bowl" to spit the liquor in. "The seller looks narrowly to the man's mouth that measures it, and if he happens to swallow any down . . . the merchant . . . does not scruple to knock the fellow down . . . Thereupon the buyer finds another mouthpiece...