Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olympic hopefuls, the big push was just beginning. Final tryouts in 134 events -from bicycling to canoeing-will be run off before the S.S. America sails next month for London with its cargo of 375 U.S. athletes...
...finca outside Havana for use against Trujillo. At the last minute the Cuban army authorities seized the guns, and the exped tion flopped. "We waited too long," the exiles say now. Last winter Guatemalan planes began taking loads of flowers to Havana. They flew back by night, carrying heavier cargo. Cases of guns were quietly stowed away in Guatemalan warehouses. Then, when Figueres rebelled in Costa Rica, the guns were flown to his mountain forces. They helped...
...hurried to his limousine and, with sirens screaming, swept down to a reviewing stand on Constitution Avenue to watch the capital's Army Day parade. As a military spectacle, it was a flop-only a handful of regular troops, one gun, no heavy equipment except a twelve-ton cargo truck. But there were 14 bands, and two dozen P-80s overhead...
...stockmarket rose higher than it had been in three months. At Gorizia, a crowd of 1,000 Italians broke up a Communist meeting, then stormed toward the nearby Yugoslav border shouting: "Long Live America, Death to Tito!" Frontier guards had to squash the impromptu invasion. Customs officials discovered a cargo of 8,000 guns, 4,000 cases of ammunition and one Communist agitator aboard a ship from Yugoslavia. On the same day, the sooth U.S. relief ship arrived. Il Giornale d'ltalia headlined the moral: "HELP FOR ITALY. FROM THE U.S., GRAIN AND COAL. FROM YUGOSLAVIA, ARMS AND AMMUNITION...
...line of Catholic war veterans appeared at the Chukotka's pier, began picketing her on grounds that her cargo could be used against the U.S. in time of war. Longshoremen decided to join the protest, held a token strike for six hours. Within 24 hours the Chukotka case had made Page One of most newspapers, was being hotly discussed in Congress...