Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the cathedral-country route once traveled by Fritz Baedeker, a new band of German tourists swarmed last week -with even less respect for British architectural treasures. Over York, Exeter, Norwich on successive nights Göring's Luftwaffe toured, dumping bomb cargo after vindictive bomb cargo on the startled cathedral towns. Another night they visited Bath, left that venerable watering place looking like a piece of old lace, ripped and soiled, but still worn with dignity...
...Kuecker gave some figures to help explain this dismal situation. Minimum supplies and equipment for each U.S. soldier landed abroad weigh 15 tons. A Liberty ship loads about 9,000 tons of cargo, or enough for about 600 men. A round-trip Pacific voyage takes 80-odd days...
Last week Lord Portsea begged the House of Lords to let him sail in a 20-ft. trawler (offered by a 77-year-old friend) with a cargo of food for the Jersey islanders. He pleaded: "It is for the children, more especially, that we plead. . . . Those little ones must perish, or worse, they must linger out their miserable lives stunted in mind and body unless we help them. . . . The task of this pleading is almost too much for me-is almost beyond...
Details of this "unique" job are a military secret, but, in broad outline, it is a mass-production method for building cargo ships that should dwarf World War I's Hog Island. Higgins' swelling backlog includes a minimum 200 Liberty ships-the biggest single order the Maritime Commission ever placed...
...Even intangibles are bootlegged. Two New York freight forwarders now face Maritime Commission music because they reserved cargo space on an American Export Lines freighter at the official rate of $50 a ton, sublet it to desperate shippers...