Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During dredging operations in the Delaware River, Army divers found the wreck of an English vessel sunk in 1750. Unable to raise the ship, the Army pumped most of its cargo through a suction pipe, spewing a mass of silt and 18th Century pewter plates, brass buttons, locks & keys, and silver shoe buckles on the riverbank...
Fifty Days. On Friday the 13th, Berlin had weathered 50 days of siege. The stormiest wind and rain of the year whipped through the ruined city. Nevertheless, on that day the West's cargo planes flew in more than 2,000 tons.* At Tempelhof, a C-54 winged in & out of the overcast with a load of coal, overshot the field, crashed a fence, burst into flame. The two U.S. flyers got out safely through an emergency hatch-leaving the airlift's death toll still at five...
Banks. The World Bank, turning from lender to broker, got ten U.S. banks to lend four Dutch shipping firms $12,000,000 to buy cargo-passenger vessels. Henceforth, said Vice President Robert L. Garner, the World Bank will try to steer foreign loans to private institutions...
...Western sectors if they would register and buy their rations in the Soviet sector. This offer was denounced and ridiculed in the non-Communist German press. In the first ten days of registration, only 19,000 Germans (out of 2,225,000) had signed up. When a U.S. cargo plane crashed in a city street, near Tempelhof, killing two U.S. airmen but harming no hair of a German head, the Red press denounced the airlift as a menace to German lives. The German answer was to hold a memorial service for the dead flyers...
...kick* at eight feet. He put together a nondescript dog team, began mushing supplies for the sourdoughs. He blazed a 1,400 mile dog-team trail from Dawson to Nome. He toted a piano on his back up the 1,200 ft. of Chilkoot Pass. With a corpse as cargo, he mushed over the mountains, 400 miles from Fairbanks to Valdez, in 28 days...