Word: ships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final Mission. He had hoped to wind up the job by February and get back to Columbia for the spring semester, but Secretary Acheson urged him to take on one final mission. This week Envoy Jessup boarded ship in San Francisco for a five-week swing through the Far East to talk to General MacArthur in Japan, visit Korea, Formosa, the Philippines, and end up in Thailand where he will preside over an extraordinary conference of U.S. chiefs of mission in southeast Asia...
...Church World Service, Inc., children of 19 countries have labored to draw and paint Christmas cards thanking the U.S. for its gifts. Norse youngsters pictured their Little Dwarf with the red hat, who brings them the season's gifts; from Germany came a nightmare scene of a ship called Bremen at the bottom of the ocean, from Italy a picture showing two children amid Rome's ruins...
When the Cunard Lines' 45,600-ton Aquitania steamed majestically into New York Harbor on her maiden voyage in June 1914, admiring New Yorkers called her "the most beautiful ship in the world." Built at a cost of more than $10 million, the four-stacked* Aquitania, with her nine decks, and quarters for 2,870 passengers, marked a new peak in luxurious ocean travel. But at first she had little time to show...
...infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she averaged a trip a fortnight from Southampton to New York, carried some 700,000 passengers. Recently the old ship, still in her stripped-down war condition, has been carrying immigrants to Canada. Last week, tied up at the Southampton dock after 35 years' service, the Aquitania was retired. Said a Cunard official, with never a tear for old Grannie: "It's unsatisfactory to run a liner longer...
...fake, installed because many travelers seemed inclined to judge a ship's reliability by the number of stacks...