National Maritime Day Honors Merchant Marines Heroic War Service
National Maritime Day on May 22 honors United States merchant seamen whose wartime effort moved 4 000 ships and delivered supplies for 10 000 000 overseas troops. About 190 000 volunteers, 11 300 officers trained, 76 400 seamen upgraded, and 30 000 experienced seamen recruited supported invasion fleets and victory cargoes.
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Elmo Scott Watson
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wUley, Wie Swaiel
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Training new crew at Sheepshead Bay station
At Sheepshead Bay the War Shipping Administration staffs the nation's premier merchant marine training complex. Outgoing time served sailors greet the incoming class as the system expands facilities to train novices and upgrade experienced men for the sea service.
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Sheepshead Bay
U. S. Maritime Service
War Shipping Administration
Journalistic chatter and wartime extracts from notes
A collage of radio commentary and literary notes on World War II figures and events. It includes praise of analysts and press commentaries on collectivism, with quoted lines from Dorothy Parker and others, plus war stories about Stalingrad and a New York correspondent’s relay.
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A. Ward
R. C. Sherrif
Dorothy Parker
Jergens Journal
New York
Eden
Garden
Stalin
Truman
Russians' conduct at San Francisco conference strains Latin ties
Washington dispatch notes changing Latin American sentiment as Molotov courts Chile and Mexico while clashing with Mexico over chairmanship. A secret-session clash over rotating the chair leads to loss of Latin friends, though Molotov later runs the session well.
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San Francisco
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Latin America
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Mexico
Padilla
Chile
Joaquin Fernandez Y Fernandez
Moscow
Fernandez
Argentina
Stettinius
Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Lublin
Lubasich
Yugoslavia
Anthony Eden
Spaak
Belgium
Caceres
Honduras
U.S.A
Republic of Honduras
Soviet Union
Lublin Poland
Post Office Targets Liquor Shipping and Check Theft
The Post Office Department plans a crackdown on shipping bottled liquor to servicemen overseas, with illegal shipments sent to veterans' hospitals. Postal authorities report a sharp rise in stolen soldiers' allotment checks, including an inspector in New York arresting 18 people in one day.
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Veterans
New York
Cartels and Taxes Darken Postwar Commerce
The article laments push toward international cartels as a condition of global trade, warns of rigid price and quantity controls on wheat and cotton, and argues such planning undermines free enterprise. It criticizes franking abuse, notes unequal tax burdens on small income, and questions a two million dollar government fertility report.
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England
France
Holland
Belgium
Sweden
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Washington
Department of Commerce
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Natasha
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Er Union
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