Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipping, hardbitten, hard-driving Hector Harris Robson, 52, Australian-born vice president of United Fruit Co., lately a $1-a-year man in the Maritime Commission. Robson's job will be to use every inch of ship space to best effect, see that never again does a ship sail-as one carrying a fleet of Army trucks did recently-with ballast where cargo could have been piled...
...Lord Admiral: for, when navigating, by only looking at a cloud or by night at a star he knew what was going to happen and whether there would be foul weather; he himself both conned and steered at the helm; and when the storm had passed over, he made sail while others were sleeping...
...Vichy could no longer pretend to be neutral, few thought that the men of Vichy, who have wagered their personal futures on Axis success, would balk at ordering the French Navy to sail under Axis colors. But there was one practical obstacle: the temper of many French seamen, who have threatened sabotage if ordered to fight for the Axis...
Responding to a request from General Wavell, former British commander is the Middle East, for 400 ambulances and attendant personnel, the American Field Service has announced a drive to enlist 1,000 men who will sail overseas this spring to care for Allied wounded in the battle of Libya...
...main attraction of these ambulance units, according to Luclen L. Kim solving '45, who has received his final papers and will sail for Cairo shortly, is that they offer immediate action without the necessity of many months of laborious training...