Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one morning last week, when the other valley towns were canopied with lights and tinsel, a big trailer truck lumbered past the great farms, turned into the chuckholed sandy roads of the drab alkali flat, and deposited its cargo on an empty lot. Ragged children and rheumy old men and women with babies shuffled over, and some men pushed forward and gently laid their hands on the new thing. The Rev. Mr. Daniels took off his hat, bowed his head and said: "Father, thank thee for this wonderful blessing...
...when the order was issued, turned up briefly in other spots-gambling joints in Tokyo, in Guatemala City-but was determined to get back to Manila by hook or crook. One day a small Panama-flag freighter named Maria Ines sailed into Manila harbor, ostensibly to pick up a cargo of fruit for Australia. But Magsaysay's alert FBI-style National Bureau of Investigation had been tipped off that Lewin owned the ship, had signed on its crew and was aboard himself. They found him listed as second mate and refused to let him land. For the next...
...Riddle Hoffa, 46, Teamster boss, built much of his empire by refusing truck service to companies picketed by labor racketeers seeking shakedown money out of phony organizational or recognition strikes. Landrum-Griffin's provisions outlaw the shakedown forms of organizational picketing, also prohibit Hoffa from automatically rejecting "hot cargo" from any company with labor troubles. Last week, at a Chicago meeting of his huge Central States Conference, Hoffa declared that he would not only observe the new law's restrictions, but also bitterly laid out a go-it-alone policy as far as all non-Teamster unions...
Winter closed the St. Lawrence Seaway this week, and the score was in on its first season. Through October the new waterway moved 17.4 million tons of cargo, well short of the 25 million ton goal. Part of the reason was bad luck; the U.S. steel strike had cut off iron-ore shipments from Labrador and traffic of other bulk commodities was down...
...derelict? The skipper caught a dangling rope and swung himself aboard. Fires out, engines dead, cargo-kapok, tea and aircraft engines-apparently intact. "Anybody aboard?" he bellowed as he wandered through the metal guts of the old gasper. "Anybody aboard?" A blow sent him reeling. A mad. bloody head leaped at him out of the shadows. "Who are you?" the creature (Gary Cooper) snarled. "What are you doing here...