Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew had been taken off by the Canarias "so presumably the ship sank." Next day a Red seaman from the Mar Cantabrico popped up in France, said he was rescued by a fishing smack and that he saw the Canarias towing the crippled freighter and her rich cargo to a White port...
...Meanwhile the planes will fly at normal 5,000-to-14,000-ft. heights on the transcontinental run. T.W.A. plans to put six in service early in 1938, has an option on 17 more. One statistic to show size: in addition to 32 passengers, the 307 will carry a cargo weighing more than the DC-3's entire payload...
...Princeton delegates went to the Purser to see how many of them there should be on board. An officer remarked that those Harvard men looked pretty rested after their vacation. At 9:30 o'clock the ship was finally cleared of its cargo...
Inspectors from the Quarantine Station went aboard.* They took the ship's chief medical officer's word concerning the health of first and second-class passengers, examined the sick on those lists, carefully scrutinized every third-class passenger for sickness and lousiness, glanced over the cargo for abnormal evidences of rats. Only when the Quarantine Station men gave the word might the yellow flag be hauled down, anchor weighed, the ship set in motion to her dock. This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique." Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York...
...United installed 14 big swivel chairs, much like those in a Pullman, giving passengers more comfort and room to use such gewgaws as bridge tables, footstools, chessmen magnetized so they will not tumble in rough air. United's sacrifice of seven seats, though partially offset economically by increased cargo capacity, still leaves a 30% reduction in normal DC-3 payload. Therefore United made its new "Skylounges" the world's first extra-fare planes, imitating the standard practice of special trains and crack liners. In addition to the normal New York-Chicago fare of $47.95, passengers are surcharged...