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...canal from Florida to Corpus Christi had already proved a lifesaver in World War II. While tankers were being sunk by submarines within sight of the coast, the canal barges were safe from attack. That boomed shipping on the canal from 7,000,000 tons (prewar) to a peak of 17,500,000 tons in 1944. There has been little tapering-off since...
...into action. What happened next shocked British witnesses and was soon to shock the world. One minute the swift battle cruiser Hood, biggest ship of the English fleet, was methodically firing from her 15-inch guns as she closed with the enemy. Two or three minutes later, she had sunk from sight. At around 25,000 yards, the Bismarck had sent the Hood down with only five or six salvoes. With another dozen or so, she drove the Prince of Wales out of action and got clean away...
...hand at new selling tricks. A grandson of Founder Moses Phillips, he stepped into Phillips-Jones's presidency in 1939 at a time when the company had just turned in a loss of $937,186. Its stock, which had once sold at 98¼, had sunk to 2¾. At 36, Phillips knew plenty about the shirt business; for 15 years he had clerked in the stockroom of the family plant, worked on credit, advertising and sales. Thanks partly to the wartime boom in textiles, but even more to Phillips' shrewd, hard-selling management, the company...
...York; in London. Bald, dashing Prussian Captain von Rintelen came to the U.S. in 1915 with $500,000 and instructions to prevent munitions from reaching the Allies. He lost much of the money playing the stockmarket, but managed to carry out his orders: 32 Allied ships were damaged or sunk when incendiary time-bombs exploded in their holds. Responsible for a wave of dock strikes and the Black Tom explosion (and suspected of planning the sinking of the Lusitania), Rintelen was decoyed out of the U.S. and captured by British Naval Intelligence, was returned to the U.S., served four years...
...guest in the presidential residence. The Perón government threw almost all its shipping contracts to him, lent him money to buy more ships, granted him many another fat favor. It went all-out on a long-ignored demand for indemnity on a Dodero ship that had been sunk by the Nazis in 1940. In addition to the 2,000,000 pesos that Dodero had asked, it gave him 15 million pesos more to cover what he would have made with the ship if it had not been sunk...