Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the cargo of the S.S. City of Flint, the ship seized by the Germans in 1939, consisted of Winchargers destined for Eire to be used in lighting bombproof shelters...
Making a "shipping agent" of the Alcoa Line (which had been willing to arbitrate), the Commission set up its own hiring hall, began signing on men. At week's end, after a seven-day tie-up, two of the struck cargo vessels, the Alcoa Banner and the Alcoa Trader, steamed out of New York Harbor. Others would follow as fast as they were loaded and the Commission could man them...
Other items from a recent westbound cargo manifest...
Scenes like this reunion were the bright side of the picture when the grimy Spanish freighter Navemar came to port in New York Harbor last week. Seven long weeks before, she had cleared from Seville, with a miserable human cargo, mostly war refugees. Built to accommodate 28 passengers, she had packed 1,120 aboard, into her hold and every usable part of the ship. Some of them had paid scalpers as much as $1,750 for their unforgettable passage...
...yards (with 234 ways) now building for the Commission will not turn out ships in quantity until the first half of next year. In the first quarter of 1942, said Admiral Land, the Commission expects to deliver 1,000,000 tons (90 tankers and cargo ships...