Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere off San Francisco, its radio silent and its whereabouts unknown, the Japanese liner Tatuta Maru lay in wait early this week-unwilling to land until it was sure its cargo would not be seized as a result of U.S. freezing orders (see above). The cargo: $2,500,000 worth of raw silk, which a special train waited to take to Eastern mills...
Beef powder. Broadcast BBC last week: "Mr. J. B. Cramsie, former chairman of Australia's Meat Council, declared that this meat powder might solve Britain's meat storage and transport problem . . . as it needs no refrigeration and takes only a fraction of the cargo space needed for untreated meat...
...Philadelphia last week, without the cargo she had come to fetch for the Emperor of Japan, steamed the Azuma Maru. The cargo which the neat little Japanese freighter sailed without...
...Azuma Maru's hoped-for cargo was held up by one U.S. citizen's ire. Edward Jobbins, who manages the Wilson-Martin division of Wilson & Co., Inc. (meats) and is busy as a bee making fatty acids for the manufacture of various articles of defense, read in his Philadelphia paper one morning that the Azuma Maru had arrived in port to load lubricating oil. Mr. Jobbins hit the ceiling. He failed to see why, when the East Coast was facing a shortage of petroleum products-because oil-carrying tankers had been transferred to the British-an Axis power...
...British warship seized the French tanker Sheherezade-bound from Houston, Texas, to Morocco-off the West African coast; and a Dutch ally intercepted the 8,379-ton French merchant ship Winnipeg-carrying a mixed cargo out of North Africa-off the island of Martinique. There were 210 Germans aboard the Winnipeg...