European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Each part of tiny engine and body is precision tooled doll size diesels photographs by Heinz Gottert Germany is exporting miniature cars to the United states to build up its Dollar credits in its Effort to build up Dollar credits Germany in t overlooking even the smallest Export possibility. Today a Munich Engineer with an Eye on the . Market is producing diminutive diesel powered toy cars. The bodies of the 12-Inch-Long automobiles Are pressed Metal All body models Are basically the same but there Are variations in Grill work and fender arrangements. Detail of design is Complete Down to the instruments on the dashboard  and brakes which Are working miniature replicas of those found in full size cars. They Are powered by one of the smallest motors in the world. These tiny cars will probably prove much too expensive to be popular As toys . Appraisers have ventured but engineers May find them of value. A pop bottle holds snout 01l to run the car All Day United sailing sailing. New Yorka americans can see the worldly steamship this year but Only if they Are not particular when and How they travel an what part of it they see. They will probably have to forego Patriot ism too. For America s great Post War passenger Fleet has not even reached the committee stage yet and to sail american you must Book on the America or sign for something less than luxury. The maritime commission predicts that All records will be broken next summer for travel abroad. But the steamship lines records show that the traveler who has not already made his reservations May have to choose some off season Island or wait until the summer Rush is Over. Of this country s single wort Atlantic luxury liner America for example there will be some space next month and almost none except by cancellations fro then until the fall. The same thing holds for the Washington also of the United states  British Cunard line s Queens Elizabeth and Mary Are booked to Southampton from the Middle of april to the end of july for All first class passage. Inthe Cabin and tourist classes the Rush starts earlier and lasts much longer. Cunard s Mauretania will be off cruise duty and Back on the Atlantic run. Early in april but already is very heavily booked. On the French line s de Grasse a Little first class space will be available in March but the Cabin class is already booked through  is not possible to get space for the return trip on the Degrasse unless one goes Back be fore june or Waits until next october or. Even november. For Cabin  can be had to Antwerp or German ports on one of the Waterman line s 12passenger ships such As the a Costa and Mada Ket but Only be fore mid april or after july or August. The olympic games pent up travel yearnings and Lack of ships. Will make it equally hard to get to Europe on most of the other lines. A Caribbean cruise is almost a impossibility now says the Alcoa line which specializes in such cruises. If the height of the season is not important to prospective travellers they would do better to wait until after april when the crowds dwindle. Or Alcoa suggests the Lucky few might also take one of the rare one Way Pas sages available to the Caribbean and return to the states by  America is a Little More hopeful for tourists. Moore Mccormack has the Argentina and Uruguay in the South american service and will have the Brazil after Early june. The rest of the year there is. Space although summer dates Are filling  Bermuda ships of the Furness Withy line have been filled up for March and april for some time and Are booked heavily through the summer. The same company s red Cross line to Nova Scotia an Newfoundland has a Little room available now but is booked forthe summer. The Trade is going to foreign steamship lines because Inthewoods of Frank j. Taylor president of the american merchant Marine Institute our passenger Fleet is at the lowest ebb in it Sone Hundred year old  the United states has Only 63 passenger vessels As compared with 127 before the War and most of them Are slow carry very few passengers or offer potential travellers Only dormitory accommodations. Shipping men blame the build ing and labor costs Here compared with the Low wages paid foreign seamen. Taylor found it doubly disheartening that a steady Stream of antiquated passenger liners is going to the scrap piles shipping people and government officials say however that the prewar passenger liners were much too old and expensive cooperate and entirely too costly to rebuild. They Point out that More than 14 million tons of passenger liners and freighters have been Laid up and that therein no american demand for these ships except for scrapping Pur poses. Under the Marshall plan. ,200 of Elrese ships would be sold outright to foreign countries and another 300 ships chartered totem. Shippers object to this be cause of the Competition an unions object on the ground that it would cause a tremendous unemployment of. American sea men the War shipbuilding Effort Mammoth As it was saw the build ing of not one american Pas Senger liner Taylor said. The maritime commission s postwar planning committee saw one program that would have built 54passenger or combination ships in ten years die a Quick death in1946. That time it was because of the shortage of steel a spokesman for the commission  a year later the presi Dent s advisory committee on the merchant Marine offered another plan providing for the building of 46ships by 1950 at a Cost of 600 million dollars. Congress never has taken an action on the plan and president Truman in. His latest budget message asked for no a Propri. Action for it. 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