Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan dock one morning last week, the U. S. Lines' passenger ship, American Trader, had her cargo stowed, her gangplank up, all else in readiness to sail with 53 passengers to Europe. Once safely across the Atlantic, the American Trader, under special orders from the U. S. State Department, was to take aboard stranded U.S. citizens, get them home with all speed...
...first ships held up was the Black Osprey of the Black Diamond Lines, bound from New York to Rotterdam with a mixed cargo. For five days her owners did not know where the ship was. When he did learn, Black Diamond's President Victor J. Sudman protested sharply to the U. S. State Department. In due course the Black Osprey was permitted to clear with all her cargo for Antwerp and Rotterdam, the British explaining that "it was not fully established that Germany was the destination and the items themselves were proved to be unimportant in quantity." Snorted President...
...Britain's big luxury liner lay in plain sight next the Normandie at her dock in Manhattan's North River. Her superstructure, more spotlessly white than ever, seemed to be suspended over a smudgy grey cloud that blended with wharves and water. The lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy) but was introducing the latest style in camouflage, a solid, sooty, flat...
Camouflage in the last war meant whirls, blotches, stripes and curlycues with which "experts" made common objects look like a futurist's bad dream. Stripes and blotches were supposed to do for ships and tanks what stripes and blotches are supposed to do for giraffes and tigers. Camouflage artists called the effect "disruptive coloration." At sea it was meant not to conceal the ship but to spoil U-boats' calculations of its speed and course, make torpedoes miss their mark. Opponents of dazzle long insisted that camouflage should conceal as well as confuse, and since World...
...faded yellow Stout Engineering Laboratories in Dearborn, Mich, was a snug two-seater slated for mass production at about $3,000. (Specifications: four cylinder, 75-h.p. motor, 450-mile cruising range, tricycle landing gear, controls so limited that the pilot will not be able to pull the ship high enough for a tail spin). By next spring, Inventor Stout announced, his new planes will be rolling off the assembly line at the rate...