Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with native women, piled up a fortune of $35,000. During the Civil War the raiding Alabama destroyed his ship. He enlisted in the Union Army, took his son on a voyage running Chinese to Cuba after the War, fought storms, lost his boy when a plague struck his cargo, returned to the Cape to find that his wife had run off with his wealth...
...Sitka, Alaska, angry citizens tried to seize the cargo of food on S. S. Northland, were repulsed at the gangplank. Elsewhere in Alaska, the food shortage became so grave that Governor John W. Troy telegraphed Washington for help. By contrast, in Boston many striking seamen, unsupported by funds from their union, were literally starved into submission, returned to work...
...route from Mother Britain to this outpost of Empire last week was a sailing vessel, the Royal Mail Cap Pilar, with a cargo desperately desired by its inhabitants. The rats, reported the master of a British freighter which put in at lonely Tristan da Cunha last August, had got completely out of control of the island's single mongoose, were devouring all crops, even beginning to eat the Bibles of which Tristanites own five to a family. Last week the Cap Pilar was gallantly sailing to the rescue with twelve alley cats...
...dawn's crack, these gentlemen gathered at Lakehurst before 6 a. m. Loading the wealthiest cargo that ever went aloft, the dirigible circled over Manhattan until a heavy mist burned off enough to give the tourists a view, then headed north up the Hudson River. Over Yonkers at 8:53 a. m. the passengers heard cries from school yards where teachers delayed classes. At Sing Sing, the New York Times reported, "the ship had a different and silent greeting from convicts in the yard." At the Danbury Fair, barkers, fan dancers and blooded cattle paused to stare with their...
...Francisco the Dollar liner President Hoover was held in port by strikers, while 471 passengers fumed and $1,000,000 in mail and cargo waited, because tne Line refused to rehire a 25-year-old seaman named Charles Brenner. On the voyage from Honolulu Brenner headed a group of sailors who complained that Captain George Yardley had violated sea safety laws by putting out with hatches open, booms hanging overside, four lifeboats dismantled. When the ship was ready to sail from San Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were...