Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irrepressible, indefatigable Henry J. Kaiser is fixing to cop the first postwar contract in the shipbuilding industry. The contract: 30 diesel cargo ships designed for the Netherlands East Indies coastwise trade. The production schedule: building to begin "long before" year's end. Henry and the Dutch, equally shrewd, figured the ships could be used for war cargoes before the Jap is licked, and certainly right after he is thrown out of the Indies...
...Detroit's 243-year history, probably no more exotic a luncheon had been served. The 275 guests at the Inter-American Air Cargo luncheon ate food that had been flown thousands of miles...
This gastronomical spree, sponsored by Wayne University and the Detroit Board of Commerce, celebrated the publication of Wayne University's heavily documented survey of "air cargo potential in fresh fruits and vegetables," initiated under a grant by Edward S. Evans...
...hundred miles west of Hafar-el-Ats, the U.S. presented Ibn Saud's Arabia with another, even more persuasive Lend-Lease cargo. At sweaty, sultry Jidda on the Red Sea, where legend has buried Eve and the main road runs to Mecca, an American freighter unloaded 7,000,000 silver coins (riyals), minted in Philadelphia and valued...
Originally designed (by Boeing) as a combat plane, Grandpappy long since has been only a packhorse. His insigne is an overloaded elephant. These days he thunders around the Caribbean carrying great quantities of cargo - as much as 15 tons pay load per trip. Flying from the Canal Zone to Trinidad is routine for Grandpappy, whose great gas tanks enable him to fly 24 hours at a stretch...