Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenditure of millions of Government funds for the maintenance of regular express and passenger liners, it is inconceivable that, once in possession of the facts, the public would tolerate application of the system to slow freight lines, particularly where such lines are engaged chiefly in the delivery of cargo sold by their owners...
...WILD CARGO-Frank Buck and Edward Anthony-Simon & Schuster...
...fighting plane is "built around the needs of pilots and armament, the new passenger ship is built around an unusually spacious cabin for ten passengers and cargo. Twin supercharged Wasp engines, streamlined into the low wings, will pull the ship 155 m. p. h. cruising speed, 175 m. p. h. top speed. The new ships will cut United's coast-to-coast flying time from 27 hr. to 24. New York-Chicago will be flown...
...coal truck was bringing a cargo of children from the shanties of striking Pennsylvania miners to Pittsburg, where they intended to beg what little they might get to supplement the Union's vanishing reserves. They were scantily clad in incongruous cast-offs, and their only food for the day was a slice of bread soaked in unpalatable coffee, but they sang with a verve derogatory ditties about the police and patriots. The pinch of hunger had wizened their faces and made them look four or five years older than they were, but it had left their spirits free...
Next day Mookini was aboard the Malolo before sailing time. Suddenly a little naval tender darted up offside the liner. Through a cargo port jumped Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and his wife. Mrs. Massie scampered around a potato bin, through a pantry-and there in a hot corridor stood Mookini with his summons. Before the Hawaiian could read it, he was shouldered put of the way by Capt. Ward Wortman, naval guardian for the defendants during the Kahahawai trial. Mrs. Massie slipped past, fled to her stateroom, slammed the door. Capt. Wortman and process server wrangled bitterly outside. On deck...