Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head of the biggest U.S. naval architecture firm (75% of all U.S. ships, merchant and naval), designer of the method of mass-producing Liberty ships, nine months ago Gibbs was drafted by WPB to head up the country's cargo shipbuilding program. Dour Designer Gibbs unwillingly went to Washington. There he ran head-on into the Maritime Commission which, with an eye on a postwar merchant marine (TIME, Aug. 23), had its own pet shipbuilding program'. Standardizer Gibbs hurled himself into battle. When he left Washington: ^ Merchant-ship types had been reduced from six to three, of which...
...Successful" was the Navy's description of the raid. Said the Navy: hits were made on ground installations and three cargo ships; a transport was left afire and sinking, another was damaged. But if Tokyo's report that 18 bombers participated-was correct-the U.S. had paid a high percentage for success. The Navy admitted that four bombers were lost due to enemy action, that six others, "failed to return...
Pearl Harbor. When the Jap struck, the Army had six troopships and nine cargo vessels at sea; all save one cargo ship made their way safely either to home ports or friendly ports. Supply routes were hastily reorganized, planes flown to Australia via Africa and India in ten days. But the ground crews and materiel to keep them flying had to go out the slow way-ten weeks or longer...
Back from a long, weary passage to India with war materials, a brine-streaked merchant vessel last week landed the largest shipment of Ceylon tea ever to arrive at New York. The cargo, 35,000 chests (over 3 million lb.) of tea (enough to last U.S. tea drinkers three weeks), is a part of the 65 million lb. in the U.S. quota under last April's British-American allocation agreement...
...merchant fleet, which must bring back Jap loot from Asia and the East Indies, transport Jap supplies to extended island bases. In one of his most optimistic moods, ebullient Navy Secretary Frank Knox last week told the U.S. public that one-third of Japan's precious cargo shipping had been sunk...