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...contracted for, at a cost of $93 million. At the end of this month, the Commission will open bids for the fastest merchant vessels ever built in the U.S.: two 670-ft., 28-knot, 543-passenger liners. It is also busy reconverting the P-2s, originally built as Navy troop carriers, for private shippers. Their cabins, in which the beds neatly fold into the bulkhead (see cut), will carry tourists more comfortably-and probably more cheaply-than prewar ships...
Bishop Thomas Tien, cardinal-designate, of Tsingtao, China, and two noncoms from Brooklyn made a striking picture of international amity (see cut) when a troop transport arrived in San Diego from the Far East. The noncoms were going home at last; the bishop was bound for Rome and investiture as China's first cardinal...
...trucemakers-Government General Chang Chun, Communist General Chou Enlai, U.S. General of the Army George Catlett Marshall-had agreed on three points: 1) all hostilities would cease immediately; 2) all troop movements would also cease, except in Manchuria and south of the Yangtze, where Government sovereignty is unchallenged; 3) all lines of communications would be cleared. A commission composed of Government, Communist and U.S. representatives promptly left for Peiping to execute the agreement...
...Francisco, a ship that had recently been carrying G.I.s sailed for Argentina with a load of pleasure-bound passengers and commercial cargo. Overtaxed transportation facilities in the U.S. had become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply stank.") But at least they got home. In West Coast ports, thousands...
...home, the uproar was augmented by understandably yearning relatives, and by others of more distant and dubious kin ship. The leftist National Maritime Union called a nationwide one-day strike to dramatize a pious demand for more troop ships. The Communist Daily Worker, in a front-page editorial, explained that the strike was called "in the name of the American people to get [G.I. Joe] home and prevent his use in imperialist intervention...