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...pouring rain one day last week, S.S. Cities Service Baltimore slid down the ways at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point shipyard near Baltimore. It is the largest tanker (32,000 deadweight tons) and cargo ship to fly the U.S. flag, with a top speed of 16½ knots and a cargo capacity of 11,473,350 gals., and is so designed that it can carry 18 kinds of oil at once.* Cities Service Baltimore is also the first ship launched under the Maritime Administration's "trade-in-and-build" plan, designed to retire tankers more than ten years...
...built the 45,509-ton World Glory, the world's biggest tanker when it was launched in 1954. In Japan and Sweden last year, he placed orders for 15 new ships totaling nearly 500,000 tons, ordered two more in Germany. In Britain last week shipyard workers were outfitting the 47,750-ton Spyros Niarchos, the world's biggest tanker and fourth biggest merchantman ever launched in the British Isles...
Hong Kong relies on Red China for much of its food supply. Communists hold strong positions in Hong Kong unions of shipyard, transport, electrical, gas and water-system workers, and there are indications, never said aloud, that the Reds also have some strength in the police. They are busy within the school system...
...over a city 65% destroyed. More than 5,900,000 cu. yds. of rubble was hauled away, and Bremen was rebuilt on modern lines. Kaisen hastened recovery by going to Washington and persuading the U.S. to remove an allied restriction on shipbuilding, wheedled $20 million of U.S. aid for shipyard repairs...
...India's peasant masses of the threat of famine. The plan strove to fill the most urgent needs of India's millions, pumped the bulk of its money into irrigation, electric power, transport and housing, only 8% into industry, e.g., one steel plant, a locomotive factory, a shipyard. Meanwhile, the "private sector" of India's economy was left free to expand. The new plan, Nehru's advisers agreed, must push more decisively toward socialism and "the public sector must be expanded relatively faster than the private sector...