Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope for Valtin-Krebs. Worrying over some 8,000 other deportable aliens, last week Mr. Jackson declared that alien legislation was no longer "realistic." Six thousands of his deportables, he said, could not be sent back "because of conditions beyond our control." Even subjecting a man to an ocean crossing involved a "sort of contingent sentence of death...
...officers and agents of the German Government" in spreading Nazi propaganda; 3) concealed his underground role in publishing the German White Paper, the documents allegedly seized in Poland which implicated Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt as promising that the U. S. would go to war for Poland. Trans-ocean and Günther Tonn were indicted for complete failure to register...
Bank. Freight rates were up all over the world (200-300% from the U. S. to the Near East, 50% to Singapore and The Netherlands Indies, 25% to South America). Commodities markets boiled with evidence that traders knew there was many a shoal ahead for ocean-going freight. Rubber rose to 22.75? a Ib. (a new high for the season), raw sugar to 3.30? a Ib. (highest in 17 months), cocoa to 7.43? a Ib. (highest since...
Secondly, since Great Britain is having ships sunk at a rate of twice her capacity to construct ocean-going crafts, sooner or later there will not be enough ships available. To prevent any such eventuality, the League proposes the use of American merchantmen and naval warships for convoy duty...
During 1941's first two months, car-loadings rose in a spectacular line from 3.6% above 1940 to 19.2%. (One growing reason for more carloadings: freight diversion from intercoastal shipping lines whose ships have been transferred to ocean routes.) Last week Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd, optimistic as ever, predicted that 1941 would show an average gain of only 9.4% over 1940's carloadings. Yet already the average gain...