Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cure for inflation is no mystery either. It is goods-plenty of them. The Foreign Economic Administration has started to give the cure. From a West Coast port, a ship loaded with food, clothing and medicine left for the Islands, the first cargo of private consumers' goods to sail since the liberation...
Most of the cargo was for private traders, who have every reason to expect a fast, profitable turnover. Soon FEA hopes to ship 30,000 tons a month, hopes that this will check the inflation until the Islands' economy can be started toward restoration. But it will take hundreds of ships and many more thousands of tons before the Islands can really be started on the road back. Until the war is over and ships are freed for peacetime traffic, the Philippines will get only a few drops of the medicine they direly need...
...Europe streamed in by the thousands. (One day last week the majestic Queen Elizabeth, which, like her sister Mary, had been an enormous military secret, shuttling across the Atlantic for five years, brought in some 14,000.) On the West Coast, still-censored ports throbbed with the still-censored cargo...
...helium, which weighs only one-seventh as much as air, to inflate airplane tires and thereby save precious cargo weight? This idea might have occurred to any ten-year-old, but it remained for engineers of the Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp. to think of it. They propose to use it in Consolidated's projected plane, the 204-passenger CV-37, which will be so huge that it would normally carry 180 Ibs. of air in the tires alone. Cost of a helium pump-up (near a helium plant): about $50. Weight saving: 154 Ibs., the approximate equivalent...
Moving the precious cargo along China's bandit-infested roads meant constant danger. At night, the Friends slept near their cabs. Religious scruples forbid them to carry guns or to travel with armed guards. One Friend's arm was so badly slashed when he tried to ward off a robber's sword that the nerves were severed...