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Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, British royal princesses, took a leaf from their sailor father's logbook. With 30 other girls of the Windsor Sea Rangers Troop, they went down to the sea for a few days in a motor torpedo boat. Elizabeth, 20, lit the galley fire, peeled potatoes, made breakfast. Margaret Rose, 15, scrubbed the deck, polished up the brass...
...from the would-be strikers. At week's end, Bridges and Curran-who follow the Communist line more often than not-fired a telegram to the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris, asking that longshoremen in all world ports refuse to unload U.S. Government-operated ships-except troop and relief ships cleared by the C.M.U. In New York, N.M.U. Port Agent Joe Stack sounded the battle cry: "President Truman will break the strike over our dead bodies...
...propaganda machine that includes the newspaper Hoy (Today), schools, sound trucks, cut-rate bookshops, a big radio station, and a troop of "Socialist Boy Scouts" attacks U.S. foreign policy daily. Hoy's Moscow-syllabled appraisal of last week's march past: a demonstration of "workers' opposition to Anglo-American reactionary maneuvers and imperialistic penetration...
...American President Lines hoped to start sending converted transports to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila in June. The Matson Navigation Co. planned to resume sailings to New Zealand and Australia as soon as its four "white ships" (the Matsonia, Monterey, Lurline and Mariposa) are returned and reconverted from troop carriers, probably...
...technical problem of sending cars through Chicago can be solved. Railroads have always sent freight cars through, sent many a troop train through during the war. The biggest problem has been finding the passenger traffic to make it pay. Before the war, too few transcontinental passengers a day wanted to travel through Chicago without stopping. Now, under Young's needling, railroads have found that traffic has increased enough...