Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disaster arrived in an 8,000-ton, Canadian-built Liberty ship. Swarms of dockers began unloading her cargo of scrap metal, timber, 708 bales of cotton, $4,293,500 in gold bullion, 300 tons of high explosive (TNT, amatol) in little black canisters. Fire interrupted their work...
...British fighter planes, from a carrier protecting an Atlantic convoy, shot down an unarmed (cargo-carrying) American C-54 transport, mistaking it for a Focke-Wulf 200. Lost: a civilian crew...
...been estimated. . . that enough shipping space has been conserved by putting this new method into practice to account for the movement of one Liberty class cargo ship sailing continuously for nine months without ever putting into port...
...special cargo planes might be needed...
...most perishable shipments originate in areas that might not take return cargo...