Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commanding an ironclad ship built in the shape of a tortoise, Admiral Yi Soon Shin won a naval victory over the Japanese during the wars of the late 16th century...
...destroyers Barton and Wood port and starboard. Finally, on the second day, after knifing through the Gulf Stream, Canberra moved into the Bahama Islands' 100-mile-long Exuma Sound to be welcomed by warm sun and blue sky. Behind, through the veil of rain, lay the ship's Norfolk pier and beyond that Ike's own pier, the White House. On the horizon: the ragged smudge of Cat Island. To the northeast lay Bermuda and a highest-level conference of the Anglo-American allies...
...first Gabriele joined him in neutral Switzerland. But when he went to Moscow, she returned to Munich, and the end came in 1916 after a final three months together in Stockholm. Gabriele's black mood was reflected in the bleak, burnt-out landscapes she painted on the ship going home. One year after Kandinsky left her, by then divorced from his first wife, he married the daughter of a Russian general; he survived the Communist Revolution, finally moved to Paris, where he painted his most lyrical and tightly composed abstractions, and where he died...
...MOTHBALLING of wartime ships for private charter is hitting a reef. U.S. cargo lines badly need vessels but cannot pay for reconditioning because costs recently doubled to about $240,000 a ship...
...Juice by Sea. Sale of fresh Florida orange juice in Northern states will get a boost from Fruit Industries Inc., which has solved the high cost of refrigerated land transport with S.S. Tropicana, a vacuum-sealed stainless-steel tanker. The ship can carry 1,500,000 gal. (the juice of 70 million oranges) on a 56-hour run from Cocoa, Fla. to Long Island, where the juice is put in cartons for sale in twelve states and Canada. Company spends only $15,000 per tanker trip v. $265,000 if the juice came by land...