Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routes, try to iron out some of the grave questions which have U.S. airline operators in a tailspin. Besides President Roosevelt the conferees included members of the Pacific War Council (with tall, gaunt Lord Halifax representing Britain), top-drawer officials from the State Department and the Army-Navy air-cargo divisions, a handful of U.S. airline operators, headed by smart, suave Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe...
...loss of a ship would be small loss, cost no lives; construction is fast, cheap, would involve small amounts of critical materials (10% as much steel as a 2,000-ton freighter) would use labor from the building trades, where the manpower shortage is least stringent; the ratio of cargo-to-ship weight would equal that of a tanker...
...losses in the same battles: two carriers badly damaged (believed sunk by flyers who attacked them); one battleship, three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, eleven destroyers sunk; two battleships, one cruiser, six destroyers damaged; several transports and cargo ships sunk and damaged...
Logical supply route to Kiska from Japan is to the south and west (where a Consolidated Liberator bomber sighted and bombed another cargo ship on the same day). Possible explanation for the B-25's victim being where she was: she was trying to slip into Kiska from the north, in the fog-shrouded Bering Sea where U.S. planes would be less likely to see her. But other Jap cargo ships were luckier. At least two in the past fortnight have landed supplies for the Jap force which still clings to the tail of the Aleutians. On their next...
American film audiences should feel obliged to nominate Leon Gordon's resurrection of "White Cargo" in movie form as one of the year's foremost blunders. Although a well-handled advertising campaign may give this production large box office receipts, it can do little to repair the damage done to the acting prestige of Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, and Hedy Lamarr. These three are the victims of a plot and setting as hackneyed as any the film industry has seen...