Word: troopships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal pier last week lay the 6,100-ton Radnik, a former U.S. troopship now owned by the Yugoslav Government. Her holds were being filled with Canadian machinery, including $330,000 worth of mining equipment, $182,000 worth of diesel engines and fishing gear. Her human cargo was waiting in tourist camps at suburban La Salle. They were 500 Yugoslavs who have had enough of Canada and want to return to their native land. Of an estimated 21,000 Yugoslavs in the Dominion, about 1,500 have signed up to go home...
...travel preparations were pushed into their final stages, with the staff scheduled to leave the country by troopship or plane before the end of June, the executive council released the present faculty list...
Blue Bells for Scotland. When the war broke out, Jimmy joined the Army and asked for combat. When his troopship docked in Scotland, he stood in the bow with his golden cornet and played The Blue Bells of Scotland, sweet and lovingly. Then he broke into half a dozen low-driving hot choruses. One witness said: "They like to never got that ship docked. That horn held up the war." Jimmy kept Bix's golden horn in his pack when he landed in Normandy. One night, at a U.S.O. show, he met a girl named Marion Page, billed...
...three hours, fire engines and boats fought the flames while clouds of yellowish smoke billowed over the 85,000-ton Queen Elizabeth, tied up at the same pier and engaged in loading 2,200 passengers for her scheduled sailing that afternoon. The 20,200-ton John Ericsson, a troopship during the war, is owned by the Maritime Commission and operated by the United States Lines. With damage estimated at more than $500,000, Maritime officials doubted that she would ever sail again under the U.S. flag...
Last week cariocas by the hundreds queued up on hot Rio docks to board the Lugano, a rehabilitated 13,000-ton troopship. On board, they gaped at a 250,000-book exhibit, some 1,000 paintings (mostly bad), modern ceramics, Chianti in wicker baskets, baby pants and electric iceboxes. All displays were for sale; they sold like nylons to Brazilians, who were used to paying more for their own shoddy products...