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David Austin '56 has a nicely angled pencil drawing a Trawler at sea. His other boat drawings are more prosaic though he has an obvious appreciation for good boat design...
Aikichi Kuboyama was only an obscure Japanese tuna fisherman on the January morning he put to sea with crewmates of the trawler Fortunate Dragon. The father of three girls, he liked to spend his time ashore tinkering with neighbors' ailing radios and puttering in his garden. Sometimes he dreamed of quitting the sea and becoming a florist...
Dark clouds hung low on the rugged Cantabrian mountain peaks, and storm warnings were posted all along the Spanish coast. Out in the Atlantic, aboard his 32-foot trawler Flower of Spring, Fisherman Candido Solana Hoz listened to the radio while he scanned the seas with practiced eye. Of all the captains sailing out of the little Basque village of Santona, Candido was the ablest. For 50 years he had followed the sea, and with his three husky sons Ricardo, Constantino and Manuel for a crew, he seldom failed to bring the Flower back with a fine catch...
Board of Trade officials explained that only non-strategic materials would go to the Russians. Items like fishing trawlers, and industrial and railroad equipment were listed to show that the exchange would not help the Soviet war effort. But importance of these goods for war production seems beyond dispute. And in a larger sense, the "non-strategic trade" idea itself is just a convenient fiction. Every fishing trawler Britons make for Russia releases Communist manpower for other, deadlier tasks. And on the other side of the coin, every product the West denies Russia means an added strain on the Soviet...
DUTCH businessmen, taking a cue from Britain's trawler dealings with Russia (TIME, Dec. 7), are planning a private mission to regain some of their former trade with China. Exporters, who anticipate tacit government consent, say they will ship no strategic goods, hope to do business in textiles, industrial machines and railroad equipment...