Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year it took professional movers a full week, working every night, to shift the morgue to new and larger quarters. Their cargo had been-and still is-separated into four major categories: 1) books (standard reference works and pamphlets on all phases of world doings); 2) periodicals (the most important U.S. and foreign magazines and trade journals); 3) subject file (general material on everything from Absinthe to Zoos); 4) biographical file (information on well known peopie, living or dead, from AE, Irish Poet George William Russell's pseudonym, to Zworykin, Vladimir K., Russian-born U.S. physicist...
...Wind Rises. The Company began in 1872 when a Scots engineer named William Clarke Cowie (who looked like a bartender in one of the very best hotels) ran a Spanish blockade to deliver his cargo of arms to the Sultan of Sulu, ruler of North Borneo. The grateful Sultan granted him shipping rights in his domain; later, at a resplendent dinner, he let Cowie persuade him to cede sovereignty over North Borneo to a British syndicate (in an expansive mood, the Sultan threw in the mother-of-pearl dessert plates on the table, along with his realm). Cowie...
...freight business, crowded with weak chicks, an eagle appeared last week. American Airlines Board Chairman Cyrus Rowlett Smith announced that American intended to operate "an effective nonscheduled air cargo service." Its "effectiveness" caused shivers to 2,730 new small operators, many of whom are veterans flying surplus planes. They now charge an average of 20? a ton mile. American plans to carry cargo at rates ranging from 18? down to the unheard-of low of 11? a ton mile for big shipments on long hauls...
Board Chairman Smith, an ex-major general, was well aware that he might be accused of putting veterans out of business; he hastened to defend American's air cargo plans. In full-page newspaper ads he pinned a discharge emblem on American by pointing out that it employed 6,000 veterans, was therefore "the largest veterans group in air transportation." The little business veterans, who would prefer to be the largest group themselves, were not impressed with the general's logic...
Protect a Monopoly? If the proposals stick, most of the lines can stay in business only by trying to get a franchise as a scheduled line. Few had the cash or time to push an application through CAB over the objections of established lines. The cargo business, the new lines grumbled bitterly, would now go to the regularly scheduled lines...