Word: cargo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shipments of arms, ammunition, and implements of war will be barred. It says nothing of the raw materials and semi-finished products which made up 85 percent of U. S. shipments to the Allies during World War I. Although the "Cash and Carry" proposal prevents American ships from carrying cargo to belligerents, the present law makes no such stipulation. In financial matters both acts are almost equally stringent save that the new bill will require title to be transferred on American soil...
...Manhattan dock one morning last week, the U. S. Lines' passenger ship, American Trader, had her cargo stowed, her gangplank up, all else in readiness to sail with 53 passengers to Europe. Once safely across the Atlantic, the American Trader, under special orders from the U. S. State Department, was to take aboard stranded U.S. citizens, get them home with all speed...
...first ships held up was the Black Osprey of the Black Diamond Lines, bound from New York to Rotterdam with a mixed cargo. For five days her owners did not know where the ship was. When he did learn, Black Diamond's President Victor J. Sudman protested sharply to the U. S. State Department. In due course the Black Osprey was permitted to clear with all her cargo for Antwerp and Rotterdam, the British explaining that "it was not fully established that Germany was the destination and the items themselves were proved to be unimportant in quantity." Snorted President...
...shipyards, already busy (62,000 men in Navy yards and 50,000 in private yards), were invited to bid on about 152,000 tons of new shipping (approximately 1,700,000 man-hours of work are required to build an average 6,400-ton cargo vessel). Bethlehem Steel increased the working hours of 20,000 employes at its Sparrows Point (Maryland) shipbuilding division, at Staten Island planned to hire 2,000 more...
Announced by Minister Cross were five control points where he proposed to have the British Navy go over questionable cargoes. These were Kirkwall (in the Orkney Islands), Weymouth and the Downs (English ports), Gibraltar and Haifa (Palestine). Neutral vessels bound toward Germany were politely requested to call at these ports, to save trouble all round. To reduce delay, ships were urged to have their papers and cargo manifests drawn up in convenient duplicate for the British officers...