Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bringing what he called a godfather grant" of $10 million, of which roughly three-fifths will be spent on a pair of Canadian-built passenger-cargo ships to be owned by the federation, the rest probably on West Indian port and navigational facilities...
...Nationalist C46 cargo plane was heavily damaged by the swooping Red jets yesterday afternoon, but managed to land on Quemoy, the Defense Ministry said. Two crewmen were wounded...
...Undelivered Challenge. Pentagon planners began to talk optimistically of "an eventual solution" to the problem of supplying Quemoy. In their optimism, they seemed to be forgetting that while a conventionally loaded LST can carry 1,300 tons of cargo, it can carry at most 17 LVTs-and each LVT has room for only 2^ tons of cargo. Cold fact was that daily deliveries of supplies to Quemoy last week ranged at best from 50 to 150 tons, but to survive in fighting trim, Que-moy's 150,000 soldiers and civilians need a minimum of almost 700 tons...
...economic advantages of Dracones are their cheapness (about $5,600 for the 100-ft. job) and the fact that they can be pumped dry at the end of a voyage, rolled up, and shipped back to a source of oil as cargo of a small towing vessel...
Says Helmsman Mann: "I think the boats are about even." If Sceptre becomes the first British boat to beat the U.S. since America first won the cup in 1851, he is prepared. As extra cargo, Sceptre's crew brought along a special box just big enough to hold the America...