Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor Shortage. Outside Campbell Soup's Camden, N.J. plant more than 100 freight cars waited to be unloaded of their fat, red cargo. Some 800 trucks, carrying 3,200 tons of tomatoes, stretched down the road in a fourmile, bumper-to-bumper line. Estimated need of southern New Jersey canners: 3,300 able-bodied male workers...
...battleships, a cruiser and six destroyers damaged, has the Jap dared get in a real slugfest with U.S. naval units. But since mid-June, in various fruitless sallies, he has lost six to seven cruisers, at least eleven destroyers, one seaplane tender, one transport, four to six cargo ships. Admitted U.S. losses for that same period were the cruiser Helena, the destroyers Strong and Gwin and the transport McCawley...
Terms of the compromise, as worked out by War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes: the U.S. will build 319 Victory ships next year. It will also build about 200 "C type" cargo ships of speedy Maritime Commission design. But the bulk of next year's shipbuilding will still be Liberties-1,300 to 1,500 of them...
...just a routine C-2 cargo ship when the Navy took her over before the war. Three times she ran supplies into the Solomons under the bomb bays of Jap planes. On the fourth trip the Alchiba got it. Loaded with aviation gasoline, ammunition and bombs, she was riding at anchor off Guadal when a sub's torpedo blasted her. Gasoline and ammunition started going up. Her captain, Commander James S. Freeman, decided to try to save her, ordered up anchor and full speed ahead. Listing 18°, the Alchiba crunched on to the beach...
...crew refused to abandon her. Standing on scorching decks, they tossed explosives overboard. They cursed Jap bombers but blessed their bad aim. For five days they worked 20 and 22-hour shifts before the fire was under control. All but 300 tons of cargo was saved. "Best crew I ever had," said the executive officer. "They were licked at least five times and didn't know...