Word: merchantmen
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...radio rooms of some 50-odd U.S. merchantmen plying Far Eastern waters last week, a terse, startling message suddenly crackled: Proceed at once to friendly ports...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee considering the House-approved bill to arm American merchantmen that Germany is pursuing a policy of "intimidation and frightfulness." He urged arming of the cargo boats as a defense move before "it is too late...
...decreed that merchantmen of Panamanian registry should not be armed, Panama's President Arnulfo Arias was on his way out of his country. Three days later Panama had a new, pro-U.S. President. To cynics this seemed like a first-class example of U.S. interference in the domestic affairs of a Latin American country. In fact...
...German High Command last week claimed it had taken up another notch in Britain's belt-by sinking eleven merchantmen out of a convoy of twelve plodding toward Britain off the African coast. In these eleven ships, the Nazis boasted, were cargoes which would have filled 5,500 freight cars-enough food to feed a city like Hull for seven months...
...Washington this week, Congressmen hauled out the old Neutrality Act, prepared to rewrite the sections keeping U.S. merchantmen out of the war zones (see p. 77). If these provisions become law, U.S. overseas shippers will 1) get more cargoes at still higher rates, 2) have their ships completely armed and convoyed at Government expense. They will also have to make slower (because convoyed) trips. But with new Maritime Commission ships becoming available to them at the rate of about one a day in 1942, overseas ship operators should still make plenty of money...