Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Bear. Into the port of Buenos Aires hove the S.S. Akademik Krilov with new Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev and a cargo of scarce newsprint. The Ambassador was expected to sign a new trade treaty; the newsprint backed...
...hoped that the U.S.S.R. could help them sooner than the U.S. or Britain, with possibly a captured German factory or two, the Soviets had failed them sadly. In the first five months of 1946 Russia had sent only $93.58 worth of goods to Argentina, since then only one cargo of Polish coal. Uruguayans who had signed a trade treaty with the Soviets earlier this month were still looking for Russian goods...
...Russians were not doing so well at trade either. Just before the war the Soviets bought 13 times as much as they sold in Latin America. Now they need coffee, cotton, hides and linseed oil. So far they had managed to buy just one cargo of linseed from the Uruguayans and a second, through UNRRA, in Argentina. They had also purchased several thousand tons of fat and tallow, 500 tons of bacon, 500 tons of ham. But Soviet-Argentine trade was about as bustling as trade between Luxembourg and Andorra...
This accurate and funny little book makes up for some of the Navy Public Relations products and a lot of wartime journalism which Mr. Heggen's characters would know how to describe. The subject is life aboard a Navy cargo ship, sketched in all its cursing frustration...
...U.S.S. Reluctant the young cargo officer named Roberts was the only man aboard who still had his heart in the war. But after 2½ years in the Navy, Roberts' heart was sore as a boil. Instead of getting on a can or a carrier or a battlewagon, he had been left on the Reluctant, whose regular run was "from Tedium to Apathy and back." Roberts' defense against frustration and boredom was to work as hard and think as little as possible...