Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally in July came the biggest program of all on top of all the rest: an order for 541 more cargo vessels and tankers, and 25 seagoing tugs. It brought the grand total of construction up to 13,500,000 deadweight tons. Last week Jerry Land told newsmen that this program would be finished...
...Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar...
...accidents, CNAC's American pilots and Chinese co-pilots fly mostly at night (bad weather preferred), blacked out, radios dead, very high, navigating by stars, by instruments, or by Oriental divining. They have carried over 2,000 passengers a year, over 1,000,000 Lb. of mail and cargo- ranging from new breech blocks for Chung-king's anti-aircraft guns to jars of American grape jelly for Madame Chiang Kaishek's table...
...thousand feet below the fat belly of the cargo plane, the Virginia countryside had a wicked look. Rocks, scrub trees, creeks, fences, power lines looked as if they lay in wait there, in the blue summer haze...
...self-sufficient in giraffes, kangaroos and tapirs than it is in silk and tin, U.S. zoomen were greatly worried last week. Animal importations from Africa and Asia have dwindled with war's spread, now threaten to stop completely. Even South American animals are held up by lack of cargo space...