Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wild Cargo (RKO) makes Frank Buck's life work of collecting animals for zoos appear to be a sinecure. When Buck sits down to rest in a Malay jungle he knows at once what causes each and every noise. "The East Indian binturong," says he, ''is a strange creature, half-bear, half-cat." Presently the binturong is laughing in a cage. When Frank Buck pitches a camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner...
...animals give Frank Buck occasional trouble. This picture shows him dancing uneasily around a cobra, escaped from its crate; herding wild elephants into a corral; scooping a man-eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other animals which appear in Wild Cargo are flying foxes, water buffalo, mouse-deer, gibbons, orangutans, tapirs. Most appealing are a white Rhesus monkey and a honey bear engaged in a calm, incompetent wrestling bout; most alarming, the python who slithers forlornly through Wild Cargo, strangling a black panther, frightening a mouse-deer, biting Frank Buck...
Purporting to be a photographic record of the latest Buck expedition to gather a shipload of creatures for the St. Louis Zoo, Wild Cargo is hardly more than an adroitly staged, carefully written continuation of Bring 'Em Back Alive. As a wild animal act, its realistic background gives it its chief advantage over a circus. But it makes Buck's profession seem at once too exciting and too simple. Forty-year-old son of Texas parents who ran a covered wagon station in Texas, he started his career by catching birds and snakes with a bolas (which...
...rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched on the overhead rail as the ladle was trundled up to the furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped down the sides in streamers and sheets. These were trimmed off by a furnaceman with a long hook as the ladlemen walked the dipper over to the mold, popped it through a door in the beehive, poured in 400 Ib. of glass turning from gold to silver...
...shipping jam quickly developed. Manhattan banks bought foreign gold so furiously that they found difficulty in getting it to the U. S. The U. S. Government had already engaged most of the available cargo space for gold it had secretly bought through the RFC. Lazard Frères prepared to ship $5,750,000, National City Bank booked $3,500,000 on the Berengaria, Bank of the Manhattan Co., $8,400,000 on the Bremen and the Manhattan, etc. etc. Every fast ship sailing from northern Europe in the next two weeks was reported booked up full. The limit...