Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen who covered it, the climax of the sorrowful story of Exodus 1947 was hard going. No story from Germany since the Nürnberg trials had drawn so much manpower: 135 correspondents from a dozen countries converged on Hamburg as three ships from southern France, and their cargo of 4,400 Jews (TIME, Sept. 15), neared port. It was the kind of story that is toughest for reporters who try to be careful, dispassionate observers. Inevitably, each brought his prejudices, emotions and loyalties along, and the press coverage showed...
...effort by some airlines to attract more aerial freight cargo, United, American, and Pennsylvania-Central last week were pressing the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to reduce their freight rates on a number of commodities an average of 33⅓%, putting them just a few cents higher than those on railway express...
...Washington with a hatful of ideas. One of them paid off. It was a fleet of baby flattops to extend U.S. air power across the Atlantic. As much as anything, his carriers broke the back of the U-boat campaign. Another Kaiser scheme was a fleet of 500 enormous cargo planes to broad-jump over the subs...
Bluster & Ballyhoo. What these facts proved was that bluster and ballyhoo had been a big force in wartime Washington. The final super-cargo-plane contract turned out to be for only three 200-ton craft. Kaiser lost interest in the scheme and later bowed out, muttering darkly about a "mysterious kiss-off." With Hughes on his own, the contract shrank to one plane which has never yet flown...
...outward bound from Southampton carrying a record number of 2,332 passengers. The giant ship proceeded at full speed on a route far north of her usual run, arrived in New York harbor the day after Britain declared war (Sept. 3, 1939). She was reported to have brought a cargo of gold worth $44,000,000. For six months she was berthed near her rival, the French liner Normandie. Dock rent cost Cunard...