Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Callao, Peru, two German ships sailed in the night without clearance papers. Next day the Peruvian cruiser Almirante Grau found them burning 200 miles offshore. Two larger ships which tried to sail were halted by five shots from the cruiser Coronel Bolognesi. Their crews fired them in the harbor. At Paita another German ship was burned. Peru retaliated by seizing the hangars and workshops and two Junkers planes of the Lufthansa airline, by taking possession of the assets of Lufthansa and German shipping companies...
...long before the Potomac sailed there was a question of how much rest the President could get. Before leaving Washington he had conferred with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Colonel Donovan, home from the wars. He went over Lauchlin Currie's final report on his trip to China. He talked over the setup of a "home defense" for the U. S. in a conference with ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Assistant Federal Security Administrator Wayne Coy, Budget Director Harold Smith, Harry Hopkins. Before traintime he saw Secretary of War Stimson, talked with William Knudsen about appointments...
...ships were the finest in the world. Before the Civil War the U. S. had the best and second-biggest (2,379,000 tons) fleet of merchantmen on the high seas, and carried over 77% of its foreign commerce in its own bottoms. But steam was replacing sail, and the U. S. never took to steam; it was too busy with other things: gold in California, oil in Pennsylvania, the Civil War, tricks with machinery. By 1880 the U. S. merchant fleet was a pitiful remnant; by 1910 it was touching bottom with 782,000 tons in foreign commerce...
...sail in two weeks are two French freighters tied up in New York Harbor, with 13,500 tons of white flour (a gift of the U. S. Red Cross). U. S. conditions: 1) the food can go only to unoccupied ports; 2) it must be directly distributed by the Red Cross; 3) "not a single pound" of similar or equivalent food must pass into Occupied France; 4) the ships must return immediately...
With Dr. Houser will sail Harold B. Foy, of the American Red Cross, who will be director of accounts for the hospital, and Kingsley Van A. Gwyer, an engineer, who will supervise erection of the 126-bed, prefabricated "siege" hospital...