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...beach near Naharia that I saw the rusted and rotting hulk of a tiny craft that had brought a few hundred "unauthorized" immigrants to Palestine. Named after Hannah Szenesh, this boat escaped detection by His Majesty's Imperial Navy, and was able to unload its human cargo on this stretch of lonely beach. The operation had been carefully planned. Strategie defenses were set up and the approaching roads were mined. As night fell, some hundred young men and women took their assigned positions, and waited. They waited far into the night but no word or sight of the boat...
Stockmen, fearful that OPA ceilings might come back, poured cattle and pigs into Midwest packing plants. At one time trucks were backed up four miles at Omaha waiting to unload; drivers had to turn hoses on their stock to keep it from dying in the hot sun. As wholesale meat stocks rose to 80% of the wartime average, packers shied away from high prices. Result: 4,000 high-priced hogs remained unsold one day at Chicago's Union Stockyards and wholesale meat prices started down, though they were still well above OPA ceilings. Retail prices, which had generally been...
Perhaps even louder were the reactions 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...
Instead, the Russians agreed to a Central Government landing at Yingkow, a minor Manchurian port. But when U.S. trans ports made ready to unload, the Russians suddenly pulled out, leaving Chinese Communists in control. In the face of threatened Communist opposition, U.S. Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey withdrew his transports...
...traded. Even these tricks would unload only a fraction of the supplies on hand. In Belgium, France and Germany the U.S. Army had $92.5 million of surplus locomotives alone. Nor would bartering solve the problem of what to do with goods deteriorating in out-of-the-way spots all over the world. Some of it would cost too much to move to possible markets...