Word: piraeus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moore-MacCormick ships used to dock with hams from Gdynia, cheese and tinned fish from Norway, fancy breads from Sweden. American Export freighters brought snails from Casablanca, almonds and wines from Marseille, chestnuts and anchovies from Genoa and Naples, figs from Smyrna and Piraeus, Balkan herbs. Along Manhattan's South and Washington Streets, around 200 brokers large and small were having their Christmas rush, their warehouses full of sugar and spice...
...single risk assumed to date was $7,000,000 on a ship which got through from the Far East to the U.S. Biggest single loss was $3,000,000 on a cargo of fine Mediterranean tobacco which went down with the Greek tramp Petalli when the Nazis bombed the Piraeus last spring. Last week the Exchange had $2,000,000 earmarked to cover a ship from the Far East, a month overdue and unreported...
...best the unhappy Italians could claim for their week's work was the first night raid on Piraeus, which Athens wrote off as negligible. Nevertheless, eying the week's round of Axis conferences (see p. 28), the Greeks well knew that Italy might bring weapons which Greek arms could not beat...
...Naples, Italy had declared war, and the whole Mediterranean Sea had become a war zone barred by the neutrality laws to U. S. ships. Ahead of grim-faced Skipper Samuel Norman Groves lay stops at Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut, a run through the eastern islands to Piraeus, second calls at Naples and Genoa. Then, late this month, he would head under the guns of Gibraltar towards home...
...Naples; an assortment of flour, corn products, hides, apples, wool, tires, lead, wearing apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese, rayon and vermouth from Genoa, pistachios, gum arabic, rags, onions, rice and tobacco. All told, the spread of war to the Mediterranean cost the U. S. a $316,439,000 export-import business, to be added to the $470,177,000 already lost...