Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world flyer or bathing beauty but a flag-draped little Swedish freighter, the Anna, tying up at the Montgomery Ward pier. What made the Anna's arrival noteworthy was the fact that she, a half-loaded tramp, was the first ocean-going vessel to carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt. Alf Jonasson a gold watch; Vice President...
...five-and six-year-old sons of Guy Maier, who was Lee Pattison's two-piano partner until last March (TIME, March 2), are no altruistic prodigies. They compose and write lyrics only when bribed to do so by their father. Last week was published their first songbook: Sons; Cargo (G. Schirmer...
Smartly erect on the Peoria dock stood Secretary of War Hurley to welcome this first cargo to the Illinois cornlands. Aboard the General Ashburn, Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government's barge line, saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring...
...into this desolate Indiana waste and out of it by industrial magic rose Gary, great est single steel city in the U. S. A public demonstration occurred in July 1908, when, with the city finished, the first cigar-shaped ore boat nosed its way into Gary Harbor, unloaded its cargo, set the mills to thundering...
...Harvard. The other members of the staff last season were H. L. Movius, Jr. '30, Gordon Macgregor 3G, G. P. Hamlin '30, A. J. Tobler, and J. T. Brenneman, both of the University of Pennsylvania. The expedition has just returned, bringing back to the museums a valuable cargo of archaeological material, which is now being studied. The discovery of an ancient European fortress of 2,000 B. C. may seem remote from modern America, but such excavations as these are gradually revealing the history of our own European forefathers in their progress toward modern civilization...