Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen hundred ships a year called at Pará (now Belém do Pará); and a thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again...
...film. Director Ford filled it with respectful piety for the hard impersonality of the sea. In doing so he built 103 minutes of photoplay around a simple character study of the S.S. Glencairn, a slow tramp steamer bound from the West Indies to Britain with a cargo of munitions. During most of the voyage, slight, sensitive Photographer Gregg Toland's camera is turned on the seamen who inhabit the forecastle-a burly, brawling Irishman (Thomas Mitchell); a big, boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid...
LONDON--Striking trip-hammer blows at Germany's naval "invasion forces," the Royal Air Force today reported a blasting attack on new Nazi warships being built in the Hamburg dockyards and disorganization of a large convey of armed cargo ships off Dunkerque...
...bombers (some of them U. S.-made Martins). In the Far East the U. S. has two cruisers, 13 destroyers, twelve submarines besides patrol and bombing planes. Against an attenuated Japanese supply line they could play particular hell. To prevent this, Japan would probably be forced to give her cargo craft the support of her fleet, with the danger that the U. S. Fleet might cut it off from home...
Meanwhile, the U. S. Fleet, now based at Pearl Harbor, would have a chance to act. Convoying tankers, tenders, cargo and repair ships, it could head west to the Orient. Once out of Pearl Harbor the Navy would have to rely on its floating shops and tenders, until it got within range of Singapore. This would involve some risks, but they are risks that most Navy men consider worth while, for under such circumstances they count on winning any major engagement in the neighborhood of the Philippines...