Word: cargo
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...King did not appear to appreciate the news fully at first. It was an entire year after the discovery when he and his retinue arrived in a caravan of 400 automobiles at the pumping station of Ras Tanura to witness the first tanker hauling away its cargo of Saudi crude. Henceforth the King would no longer rely for income on the pilgrims arriving in Mecca, Islam's holiest city. And his kingdom's petroleum wealth would emerge as a crucial factor in Middle East politics and the bargaining over global energy supplies. --By Adam Zagorin
...exactly 6:30 AM the battalion, supported by five tanks, swept across the airfield in almost textbook fashion. By 9:00 AM one of the largest airports in southern Iraq was declared secure and Army engineers were already on the airfield opening it up for future use and for cargo flights of emergency humanitarian relief...
...battery has been roaming around and targeting incoming planes for weeks?hence the southern approach, coming in above a stretch of remote desert that is patrolled by coalition forces. When we land, the HC-130 doesn't even pause long enough to stop its four propellers. It dumps a cargo of Air Force engineers, some electrical wiring and tents, and takes off in a hurry...
...trace the history of opium from highly valued ingredient in the pharmacopoeia of the ancients to the scourge of addiction that brought China to its knees in the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a re-creation of a British East India Company clipper ship's hold and its cargo of opium from India destined for the South China coast and a reproduction of a typical 19th century opium den, where a visitor can take himself through the opium smoker's paces (sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size diorama, entered through an innocuous-looking tea shop...
...rich rewards, U.S. companies are assembling detailed information, like the precise measurements of bridges spanning Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the event the structures need to be replaced following U.S. bombing, and the number and type of cranes that could be damaged in Iraq's Persian Gulf cargo ports...