Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's motor truckers are hauling a full cargo of woes...
When the Hudson Bay Company's supply ship Nascopie sailed from Montreal this week on her annual 11,000-mile voyage through the Arctic, she carried, along with 34 passengers and a cargo of necessities for northland Mountie posts, 1,200 copies of a 28-page pamphlet entitled The Book of Wisdom for Eskimo. In Eskimo-land, a copy of the pamphlet will be given to every family within reach...
...which, if it became law, might wreck Administration efforts at Geneva for freer world trade (TIME, June 2). Marshall and Under Secretary Will Clayton had to rush before a House committee to plead for extension of the Maritime Commission's power to operate the tankers and charter the cargo vessels which are currently keeping Europe alive. Certainly no program calling for a yearly expenditure of $5 billion had a chance in the present session...
...Montreal pier last week lay the 6,100-ton Radnik, a former U.S. troopship now owned by the Yugoslav Government. Her holds were being filled with Canadian machinery, including $330,000 worth of mining equipment, $182,000 worth of diesel engines and fishing gear. Her human cargo was waiting in tourist camps at suburban La Salle. They were 500 Yugoslavs who have had enough of Canada and want to return to their native land. Of an estimated 21,000 Yugoslavs in the Dominion, about 1,500 have signed up to go home...
...Kentucky boy named Boone Caudill who goes West after he hits his Pap a lick with a piece of firewood. In St. Louis in 1830, he and his friend Jim Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...