Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Corio received her interviewer in the privacy of her dressing room while she was preparing for her first Boston performance of "White Cargo," at the Plymouth Theatre Monday night...
Changing from burlesque to "White Cargo" was not very difficult, Miss Corio said, because she has sufficient experience in stage presence, timing and audience reaction. Audiences, she said, are the same everywhere as far as she is concerned...
Unlike munitions makers, merchant shipbuilders have little fear of shortages. The average cargo-ship hull requires 3,000 tons of steel plate. The ships to be built this year-about 770-will thus need 2,-310,000 tons-about five months' output for a single mill like Carnegie-Illinois's huge Gary works. Builders plan to make only as many C-2 and C-3 freighters as they can get turbines for. The rest of the program, mostly "ugly ducklings," will get easy-to-make reciprocating engines and old-type Scotch boilers (which can be replaced by modern...
...which overlooks the airbase. Thousands of expectant Brazilians were waiting for something, but it was not for the Argentine delegation. Five minutes later, however, while the Buenos Aires representatives were still on the scene, a huge, forty-ton Yankee clipper zoomed out of the skies an disgorged its immaculate cargo, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, complete with walking stick. This was what the crowd was there for; they greeted him enthusiastically. "Hats were thrown in the air and shouts of 'Viva America' and 'Bravo Welles' resounded as the tall, dignified diplomat debarked," reported Joseph Driscoll to the Herald Tribune...
...shipping shortage has long worried Washington. Last week it became known that U.S. deliveries to Russia in October and November were less than half the several hundred thousand tons promised; lack of cargo space was the chief reason. Including those in the North Atlantic, more than half the 600-odd ocean-going U.S. freighters were last week engaged in supplying the Allies. But on no supply route were there enough ships to carry all the goods the U.S. was prepared to send...