Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...muddy Pearl River last week washed some grisly flotsam onto the shores of the islands that hug South China. On Hong Kong and Macao, 43 bodies drifted to shore-many brutally slashed and six of them trussed, their arms and legs roped to their necks. The Pearl's cargo confirmed, in dramatic fashion, reports from the mainland by travelers, press and radio that the worst factional fighting in a year is spreading throughout much of China, particularly its southern half...
...Middle East's oil annually, to keep its line bubbling. The region's only major non-Arab producer is Iran, on which Israel relies for much of its domestic oil needs. But predominantly Moslem Iran is sure to come under heavy Arab pressure to steer its oil-cargo trade in Cairo's direction. So, even though its pipeline is expected to be finished first, Israel may thus run into trouble in the race for customers...
...would like tenth-largest Continental to be the biggest in some aspect of the aviation industry. Last week, three days after his 61st birthday, Bob Six got his wish. At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Continental's president dedicated a new $6,500,000 air-cargo terminal that is the biggest such structure in the world. If it were picked up, straightened out and moved to downtown Chicago, the new terminal would stretch for four blocks in the Loop...
Continental has rented space in the terminal to eleven airlines that make international flights. Thus Six's line will be in a position to handle more of the overseas air cargo that now flies directly into Chicago for redistribution rather than setting down in San Francisco or New York. At the same time, in such company Continental's name will become a little more familiar abroad. That will be just fine with Six, who has big ambitions to make his airline an international carrier...
...newest freight venture, the Santa Fe is proposing that cargo moving between Europe and Asia be unloaded from ships and carried across a U.S. "land bridge" consisting of Santa Fe and Penn Central tracks. Moving between New York City and the West Coast in five days, the trains would chop five to eleven days off the same trip made by ship via the Panama Canal, with obvious savings...