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Perennial No. 1 sore point in Japanese-U. S. relations is the scrap-iron trade. But this time the scrap issue was dead. Burying it were a flock of Japanese, Greek and miscellaneous tramp steamers feverishly filling up with their last loads of U. S. scrap before the embargo took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Japan v. U. S. | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

To stamp out "fifth-column stuff" among the nation's tramps, Jeff Davis ("King of the Hobos") announced the formation of a hobo constabulary to be known as Jungle Bulls,* under the command of famed gate-crasher "One Eye" Connolly. Said King Davis: "Hobos are the best friends this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 10, 1940 | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

How else Blitzkrieg would affect U. S. business no man could say. Scandinavian trade is a complicated network which taps world ports from the Thames to the Weddell Sea, from Hammerfest to Antarctica. The tireless tramps of Norway, No. 4 world seafarer, carry the bulk of Cuban sugar shipments to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Scandinavia Closed | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Of Mice and Men (United Artists). This first John Steinbeck picture is U. S. amusement seekers' third exposure to his bleak account of manly affection between two bin die stiffs (tramps who tote their own blankets) on a California grain ranch. It was first a novel, then a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Convoys can go no faster than their slowest members. Mr. Churchill said that the system has now been speeded by instituting "slow" and "fast" convoys, so that wallowing tramps do not hold up the parade.* He pointed out that while losses of British merchant shipping declined in October to half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Churchill v. Chain Belt | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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