Word: shippings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Outwardly, Egypt's Nasser and his countrymen acted as though they did not believe their antagonists' threats. In their hearts, however, they could not be sure that one misstep, one clumsy, maneuver, even one ship accident in the Suez ("Remember the Maine!") would not bring on the guns of Britain and France...
TACAN does much the same thing by a different electronic method. The Air Force and Navy prefer it chiefly because its ground stations are much smaller and work better from a ship or a cluttered land site. The military have installed their TACAN stations independently of the CAA. Twenty of them are already functioning, and 181 more are being set up. Chief civilian objection to TACAN is that it is new, untried and will force non-military aircraft to install costly new equipment...
...history, Martin is well aware that he could overnight become the scapegoat of slump. In the crisis-stained chronicles of U.S. finance, bankers have been crucified on crosses of gold, silver, paper and every other substance used to back currency. From early colonial days, when they had to ship scarce gold and silver abroad to pay for imports, Americans chronically lacked sufficient backing for stable money. Virginia in the 17th century used tobacco for money (top-grade weed was worth 3$. a lb.), but was plunged into inflation by citizens' cash crops...
...SHIPPING COSTS are zooming because of Middle East crisis. Rates for dry cargo and oil are up as much as 200% in past year (to record $19.62 per ton for oil from Persian Gulf to United Kingdom). Ship prices are also following trend, with standard T-2 tankers currently pegged at $3 million v. $2.2 million as late as last April. 1957 PACKARD will be produced despite reports that Studebaker-Packard and Rescuer Curtiss-Wright would drop next year's model. In January, company will start turning out either face-lifted 1956 model or redesigned and upgraded Studebaker bearing...
Died. Count Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, 77, wily, spike-bearded German sea raider whose auxiliary cruiser Moewe (Seagull), disguised as a cargo ship, twice ran the British blockade, destroyed an unequaled 50 vessels between 1915 and 1917; of a heart attack; in Rosenheim. Germany...