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...TIME, June 29), told him to prepare for survivors from a sea disaster. By 7 o'clock, housewives, schoolteachers, nurses, shopkeepers, artists, artists' wives, fishermen, with arm bands designating them as first-aiders, auxiliary police, canteen workers, air-raid wardens, were running along the streets to the wharf and the Report Center...
...narrow mouth of Trondheim fjord bristles with German guns. The old ship-building wharf, extended for warships, has been blasted by British bombers. Half a mile outside Trondheim, transatlantic U-boats crouch in shelters dug out of hill sides which are as prone to slide as the hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take...
...that an average of only 17 out of a 20-man stevedore gang were ever on a job steadily. "Stand-bys," men whose jobs had been taken over by machinery in the middle of the job, had to be paid even though all they did was squat on the wharf and fish. Wrathful shippers took their business to businesslike harbors...
When the Argentine merchantman Rio Salado was warped to wharf in Buenos Aires recently, her crew had a tale to tell: on her voyage from New York, the ship had been stopped five separate times by Axis submarines. Once her neutral Argentine markings were proved genuine, she had been allowed to proceed unmolested...
...grey, rusty transport edged with khaki ruffling hitched silently toward the wharf. Ashore, British officers waited nervously for uncouth antics in the Aussie manner...