Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Admiral Lee's battle, a U.S. force found four Japanese cargo vessels beached about seven and one-half miles west of U.S. positions on Guadalcanal. With the help of aircraft from Henderson field, the vessels were destroyed...
Adding the score of the final engagement, announced last week, to that previously announced (TIME, Nov. 23), the Japs suffered the following sinkings: one battleship, another battleship or a very large cruiser, eight cruisers, six destroyers, eight troop transports, four cargo ships. They also lost a huge number of ground troops who had been taking their last ferry trip-between 20,000 and 40,000, Admiral Nimitz estimated...
...Andrew Campriello, spot welder of Italian parentage, developed a better welding technique on steel cases for enclosing electrical equipment aboard cargo ships. Time saved: 3,000 man-hours a year. Award...
...Axel Johnson, Swedish-born 45-year-old, designed a pattern change that saves enough steel in a year to make 44,000 bayonets, will cut man-hour time on production of cargo-vessel electrical parts by 10%. Award...
...device for calculating foolproof GM is called a Ralston Stability & Trim Indicator (Kenyon Instrument Co.). It is essentially an aluminum tray, engraved with a longitudinal cross section of the ship drawn to scale, which balances on a pair of knife edges. Weights, gauged to actual weight of cargo to be carried, are then placed over each hold on the diagram. The tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge...