Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four days of the week his name moves high enough on the union hiring hall's list for him to get taken on. Then, togged like the rest of the gang (some 365) in old pants, shoes and T-shirt, he wallops sacks of sugar, coal, assorted cargo from 7 till 5. At week's end he may have earned...
...beach near Naharia that I saw the rusted and rotting hulk of a tiny craft that had brought a few hundred "unauthorized" immigrants to Palestine. Named after Hannah Szenesh, this boat escaped detection by His Majesty's Imperial Navy, and was able to unload its human cargo on this stretch of lonely beach. The operation had been carefully planned. Strategie defenses were set up and the approaching roads were mined. As night fell, some hundred young men and women took their assigned positions, and waited. They waited far into the night but no word or sight of the boat...
...confused with F.D.R.'s Four Freedoms. The air freedoms: 1) to fly over a foreign country; 2) to land in a foreign country for fuel or repairs; 3) to land passengers or cargo from one's own country in a foreign country; 4) to pick up traffic in a foreign country bound for one's own country; s) to carry traffic from one foreign country to another...
...last week the Marine Lynx waited at a San Francisco dock to take aboard her cargo: 408 missionaries, including wives & children, bound for China and the Philippines to pick up where most of them left off five years ago. For those who had forgotten that Americans were pioneers, their faces were a reminder. Now those faces were set toward a frontier of Christendom. Seldom had travelers been so impatient to get under way. But Harry Lundeberg, boss of the strike-ridden Embarcadero, would make no exceptions. "We can't give 'em any relief," said...
...strictly political strike of their own the day before the maritime strike became general, A.F.L. longshoremen refused to load one UNRRA ship in Manhattan because its cargo was destined for Yugoslavia...