Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor poetry is being written, is Keats as a model so consistently neglected? Or is he? Perhaps the answer is that he isn't, but that he translates badly, not to say unrecognizably: that our modern verse idioms, bizarre, swift, and impatient, are incapable of carrying so rich a cargo and bringing it safely to port...
...clothes. Gobs doused him with sand, yanked him away. A Hindenburg steward named Kubis courageously ran back into his ship to save the metal money box. He bore it proudly to his officers. But all the bills within had charred to ashes. Also lost was a valuable 340-lb. cargo of which the chief known items were photo-graphs and newsreel films. Of 240 Ib. of mail, only 200 charred letters were saved...
...Immingham Dock, Humber River, in the north of England, the little freighter Backworth last week loaded $10,000 worth of sugar, flour, fruit and dried salt fish for starving Basques in Spain's besieged Bilbao. More than one-tenth of the cargo was paid for by David Lloyd George who seldom misses a chance to make political capital of anything. Down to the dock hurried Britain's Wartime Prime Minister to wring Captain Russell of the Backworth by the hand...
...even the Back-worth was responsible for the sudden pro-Leftist switch in British opinion last week but a group of blustering captains of rusty little British freighters. While the British Cabinet worried over Generalissimo Franco's blockade, the captains, three of whom were named Jones, and their cargoes of spoiling food remained marooned in the French harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. First to catch the public eye was Captain David ("Potato") Jones, part-owner of the Marie Llewellyn and nicknamed for his cargo. Roaring, "Has our Navy lost its guts?" Potato Jones...
That originated in the Dowland Line offices in London, "in chancelleries, exchanges and banks of a few great capital cities." In London the decrepit condition of the Hestia was counted on to delay her cargo of sugar until the market was suitably rigged. When Captain Doughty arrived a week early. Sir John Dowland cursed and sent the Hestia off for a risky North Atlantic crossing...