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...foreign buyers will want many high-priced U.S. ships, or that there will be any commercial use, under any flag, for more than half the 5,000 ships available. Some cargo ships have already been laid up. Hundreds more will follow soon, until the quiet estuaries along the U.S. seaboard become as cluttered with rusting ships as they were after World War I. The U.S. will simply have to write off billions spent on shipping, just as it is writing off billions spent on war plants...
...like Port Arthur's hit oil plants in seven states through the South and Midwest. By week's end 27,000 workers were out. Toledo went on self-imposed gasoline rationing, other communities considered similar steps; millions of gallons of gasoline and fuel oil for the Atlantic seaboard were choked off. At one time last week, 323,000 workers were idle, in strikes and shutdowns...
When a connecting road is constructed from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Pan American Highway running through Mexico, Williams will operate a ferry between Cuba and Puerto Morelos. U.S. motorists from the eastern seaboard who want to go to Mexico City would save 800 miles of driving by taking the Cuba-Mexico auto ferry...
...surrendered off Cape May. N.J., claiming to have sunk 16 ships in its last eight weeks at sea. Other captives were awaited along the U.S. seaboard. Meanwhile convoying will be continued in the Atlantic until the last of the wolf pack has been accounted...
...grain trade reported that the Army was in the market for 140 million bushels of wheat, 900,000 tons of flour for shipment overseas. Thus as fast as cars arrived in the West they would be loaded with Army grain and flour and shipped back to the Eastern Seaboard at the rate of 35,000 a month by midsummer...