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...eminent among the "surplus" nations is the U.S. War sinkings, war building had wrought many changes in the world's merchant fleets, and none more striking than the towering tonnage supremacy of the U.S. merchant marine (more than half the world total...
Thousands of people wrote in from all over the world. Some wanted to buy stock in the project; others to make their reservations early. Merchant mariners galore (mates, plain sailors) asked for jobs aboard the ferries. G.I.s and navy men sent in their qualifications and said they would take any old job. Some writers just wanted to express their admiration...
...Tongues. St. Laurent was born 63 years ago at Compton, Quebec, near the Vermont border. He is a polished, flawless bilinguist by inheritance: his father was a French Canadian merchant, his mother a first generation Irish Canadian. ("I didn't know at first there were two languages in Canada. I just thought there was one way to talk to my father and another way to talk to my mother...
...Accepted "with utmost reluctance," the resignation of Vice Admiral Emory S. Land, crack boss of the U.S. Merchant Marine for eight years...
Toujours Lamoureux. In the English Channel, ex-G.I. Herbert J. Lamoureux, having cannily joined the Merchant Marine to return to his British war bride and child, plopped overboard, gamely attempted an icy five-mile swim to England's shore, was picked up, two miles short, placed aboard another U.S.-bound ship...