Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until they are well out of Cherbourg does Jerome realize what his uncle is up to: the cargo, valued at 1,200,000 francs, is fake; the ship, just insured for 300,000 francs, will be sunk; the seven piteous, hastily recruited members of the crew, who might ask embarrassing questions, will be locked in and drowned; Jerome and Romain and an agent ashore will split the proceeds. There isn't much Jerome can do about it. He has signed all the papers; if the Rose docks at Constantsa with its cargo of "machinery" he faces a long jail...
...American Civil Liberties Union last week reported that only seven movies ran afoul of State or local censorship in the U. S. last year. The seven: Birth of a Baby, the French film Harvest, the U. S. Public Health Service's Fight for Life, Strange Cargo and Primrose Path (these two notable because they were produced by major Hollywood studios whose self-censorship is usually effective), Birth of a Nation (Negro trouble in Denver), and an anti-Nazi blast variously entitled Hitler, The Beast of Berlin, Goose Step, and A Nation in Chains...
...Buenos Aires the British motorship Gascony floated quietly at her dock, prepared to sail for England with British volunteers and a cargo of canned meat...
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. is well under way on its $10,400,000 contract, let in February 1939, for four Maritime Commission cargo ships for American Export Lines. In the yard at Decatur an estimated $1,000,000 worth of river craft were last week building. But the big feather in Ingalls' cap was a fat $16,000,000 contract for four sleek, 489-foot, 9,2Oo-ton passenger ships originally destined for U. S. Lines' New York-London trade. Ingalls is not alone in its belief that the riveted ship is on the way out. Near Newport News...
Into the waters of the East Pascagoula River last week slid the 492-foot, 8,900-ton cargo ship Exchequer - first ship launched from Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.'s brand-new ways at Pascagoula, Miss. Lat est addition to the Maritime Commission's new U. S. merchant marine (500 ships in ten years), the $2,600,000 cargopassenger carrier held more than passing interest for U. S. shipbuilders. She was the largest all-welded general cargo ship ever built...