Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sighted the submarines first in mid-Atlantic and for four days, in light and darkness, fought off the raiders with gunfire and depth charges. U.S. Navy and British Coastal Command planes patrolled the skies, swooping down on any sub bold enough to surface. Two submarines were probably destroyed. "Some" cargo carriers were sunk. The rest of the convoy, part of it probably destined for Russia, reached England intact...
...ocean supply lines. Stories of vessels sunk, of seamen drifting for weeks on winter seas, had become a dreary and bitter routine. Into Boston last week came the crew of a Panama freighter. Missing were an engineer, a gunner and the chief cook. Five hundred monkeys, part of the cargo, had drowned when the Panamanian was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean...
...ingenuity into his U-boat campaign. South Africa reported huge German craft clustered thickly around Portuguese Lourengo Marques, sinking Allied ships with a frequency that shook South African morale. From Stockholm came a German writer's story of a new wrinkle: submersible barges towed by cargo-carrying subs to refuel and supply U-boats far from home...
Since then he has been on many. Best record is three cargo ships, two light cruisers and three destroyers sunk with 30 bombs. Bill Benn himself holds the D.S.C. for being our in front when 100,000 tons of Jap shipping were sunk...
Before the war China's National Health Administration could boast of tiny gains toward improved public health, but war has amputated many of China's health facilities. Drugs have to be imported by plane and the cargo space allotted to them is only 18 tons a month. Even these drugs are poorly distributed because of hoarding, lack of internal transportation and the complete isolation of guerrilla areas from medical help. A wounded Chinese must usually rely on stoicism rather than morphine...