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Down the ways at Quincy, Mass, last week went the largest cargo vessel ever built in the U.S., and the largest tanker in the world: the 45,130-ton World Glory, with a capacity of 16.5 million gals.-enough to fill 2,062 railroad tank cars. Built by Bethlehem Steel...
Stavros Niarchos is something of a man of mystery who manages to keep out of the public eye. Born in Greece in 1909, he studied law at the University of Athens before entering a small family flour-milling company that imported grain from Argentina. Noticing that most Greek millers, like...
In New York harbor last week, a U.S. Customs officer briskly climbed aboard the S.S. Mohican, a World War II Liberty ship, as she lay at anchor. The officer informed the captain that the ship was being seized by the U.S. Government. His reason: the U.S. ship, in violation of...
Admiral at Work. Burger simply seized the ships, then let them continue operating under the same officers. But he first had both captain and first mate sworn in as deputy U.S. marshals, with the duty of impounding all profits made by the vessel. To accomplish this, Burger had to get...