Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike clamped down West Coast ports as tight as a submerged submarine's hatches. About 160 U.S. ships of the Pacific cargo and passenger fleets were caught in port; about 200 were at sea and would be tied up the minute they docked in West Coast ports. Hawaiians and Alaskans, who know what it is like to have Bridges paralyze their economies, battened down for another long storm. Bridges made no provision for loading cargoes for the occupation forces of the Pacific. He made one concession: "Only the dead will be worked." This meant that the bodies of World...
...stockholders, ready to throw in the sponge, voted to liquidate. But the government had already taken steps that it hoped would change stockholders' minds before this week's final vote. It had issued three decrees: 1) cutting featherbedding; 2) promising mechanized cargo-handling equipment; 3) providing for government operation of the river steamers, with compensation for the private owners. Snorted the board of directors: "Frankly confiscatory...
...normal, Bernstein's prewar route to Belgium and The Netherlands has become one of the U.S.'s main arteries to Europe. Each week, four or five ships of half a dozen lines leave U.S. ports for Antwerp and Rotterdam. Some carry only a tenth of their cargo capacity, and many lose money on the run. But all the lines have the same idea: to entrench themselves for the day when the U.S.-Lowlands route may carry as much as 3,000,000 tons of freight a year between the U.S. and a restored Western Europe...
Several plans were under way to increase cargo volume: 1) an eventual total of 250 C-54s (capacity ten tons) on the U.S. run: 2) transfer of the U.S. loading point from Frankfurt to Fassberg, in the British zone, shortening the distance to Berlin; 3) more landing space in Berlin...
Crude oil and other petroleum products make up 75% of the river's cargo. Most of it is upriver, and the oil barges return empty; rivermen are now talking of building oil barges with return-trip deck space for autos. The rest of the traffic is in other bulk products which do not have to be moved rapidly. Downriver, Pittsburgh and Chicago ship steel, the Twin Cities grain. Upriver come cotton, sulphur and scrap from the South, coffee and sisal from Latin America...