Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Maritime Commission permitted Shipper Farley, now executive committee chairman of unsubsidized American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., to put his lesson into practice. For a fat $1,600,000, he sold four of his tired old (20-21 years) tubs to Great Britain, which needs cargo ships to transport war supplies. This gave Mr. Farley cash in the bank with which to begin replacing his fleet of 34 ships (average age: 23 years), if he wants to. His four old ships, out of service until the war boom, netted him the fancy price...
...French patrol ship followed a Spanish steamer carrying German goods but did not seize her. Reason: the cargo included an automobile sent by Adolf Hitler as a present to France's neighbor, Francisco Franco...
...freighter City of Flint, tempest teapot of the war's sixth week, when she was taken captive by Germany, later freed from a Nazi prize crew by Norway, sailed at last out of Narvik for home with a cargo of iron ore. Leaving the harbor in a fog, she whanged into a British freighter, had to put back to repair damaged plates...