Word: shiploading
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...Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
...four months. The only trick was to get the scrap to the U.S. from the jungles of 16 far Pacific islands, where it lies among great dumps of war surplus. But Bethlehem Steel, which had contracted to pay $30,000,000 for the scrap, hoped to get the first shipload in a month. To the scrap-starved steel industry, it could not come too soon...
Crackling events reminded U.N. what enforcing solutions might mean. In the Eastern Mediterranean, British destroyers intercepted another shipload of Jewish refugees; one Jew was shot to death and nine were wounded in a scuffle with the boarding party. In Palestine, Haganah stepped up recruiting. Five Zionist leaders, including Jewish Agency President David Ben-Gurion, received messages signed by "the commander in chief of fighting Arab youth for free Palestine." The messages promised: "You will die as soon as possible...
...children, all naked-are pictured facing a body of water. There is no ship in the picture, but the presence of one is suggested by a large mooring hawser the people are holding. The Finns delighted in telling me that this "symbolizes Finland in 1952, gazing at the last shipload of reparations leaving for Russia...
Nightclub checks at Giro's and Sans Souci often run into three figures, and if the waiter adds a 20 for himself, few complain. Last week a shipload of Rolls-Royce limousines was en route from England to retail at $13,000. All were spoken for-including one for President Alem...