Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fire sirens wailed and choking smoke poured through the ship, a few men passengers panicked and rushed into the lifeboats ahead of sobbing women and screaming children. When they ignored orders to get out, they were knocked unconscious by crew members and dragged back on deck. But after that, the ship was. abandoned in perfect order. In 35 minutes the Skaubryn was roaring from end to end like an acetylene torch, but every passenger and seaman was in the safety of lifeboats on the calm sea. As long as they were able, the two radio operators sent out SOS signals...
Within half an hour the lights of a rescue ship, the British freighter City of Sydney, bore down on the survivors. Children were lifted aboard in cargo baskets, men and women scrambled up rope ladders. A German emigrant from West Berlin said fervently: "The Indian crew and the English officers of the City of Sydney behaved wonderfully to us. One of the Indians put as many as eight children in his bed and brought them refreshments." Next day the Skaubryn's passengers and crew, men and women from 20 nations, were transferred from the overcrowded freighter to the Italian...
...City of Sydney sent a radio message of farewell to Skaubryn's Captain Alf Faeste and his crew: "Your feat in lowering 16 boats containing 1,300 people into the water in 35 minutes without loss of life or injury, with so little warning, and from a blazing ship, is a superb example of seamanship and discipline unique in maritime history. When you speak of this disaster, you can hold your heads high...
...Angeles salesman of low-priced garden and patio furniture, whose orders this year are three to four times better than last. The fact only moves Salesman Cammer to complain: "My suppliers have become so panicky over the news of bad business that they can't ship my orders when I need them." Of such paradoxes is 1958's recession made, and rarely did they show more clearly than last week. The price of aluminum was cut, partly because of slow consumption, but the price of oil stayed up, despite huge excess supplies. The auto industry was having...
...newsmen dashed over the jungled distances in sometimes-scheduled airliners, river boats, buses and ancient taxis. When they did find something to write about, they had the problem of getting it to Singapore. The Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech finally had to send one dispatch by ship, a two-day trip. Luckier newsmen used the rebels' clandestine radio transmitter in Padang, sent out hand-tapped signals that were monitored by the news agencies in Singapore, 300 miles away...