Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teagle, 9,552 gross tons, owned by the Standard Oil Co., flying the British flag, manned by a British crew, bearing north for Iceland with a cargo of bulk...
...Bold Venture, 3,222 gross tons, owned by U.S. Maritime Commission, flying Panamanian flag, lat. 57° N, long. 24° W, bearing north for Reykjavik with general cargo bound for Britain. . . . 11:40 p.m. . . . All well...
Because West Coast maritime comings & goings are no longer published, a complete log of affected ships is unobtainable. But veteran shippers knew the log included several World War I Hog Islanders, at least four luxurious ocean greyhounds, a few new Maritime Commission C-2 and C-3 cargo boats-some on their maiden voyage. Some specific cases...
...President Taylor (American President Lines), outward bound for a general Far Eastern cargo, probably ducked into Singapore. Sister ship President Madison was near Honolulu; her senior officers already may be riding Waikiki surfboards...
...bring in a first-morning sheaf of orders (it didn't). He did it as a missionary gesture. Like most transportation bugs, Sanders expects a revolution in railroad equipment -perhaps after the war, when men and materials will be more obtainable, when vast fleets of cargo planes may force the roads to run 80-to 90-mile-an-hour freights or get off the tracks...