Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imports could easily have been stowed into two Liberty ships. But the role air freight played in maintaining essential war production could not be thus measured in cold statistics. Last week a young, lean Navy lieutenant, Langdon P. Marvin Jr., chairman of WPB's Interdepartmental Air Cargo Priorities Committee, in a year-end summary of work done, told how air cargoes of vital raw materials arrived only a few hours before the last reserves were scraped from the bottom of U.S. stockpiles. Without planeloads of mica, quartz crystals, tantalate, columbite, industrial diamonds and rare drugs, the production lines...
...where a 17-months' campaign entered its final, victorious phase. U.S. Liberator bombers, Hellcat and Corsair escorts mauled one of Rabaul's five airfields, shot down 71 to 90 planes, left behind 15 U.S. planes. A U.S. carrier force ranged to Kavieng, sank a Jap destroyer, two cargo ships...
Target: a Peninsula. As the General's ships took on the cargo of invasion, the General's planes droned over the sea. For a fortnight they had pounded the southwest end of the long (300 miles), thin (60 miles at the widest), scimitar-shaped, jungle-covered, volcano-studded island that was once a German colony, then an Australian mandate until captured by the Japs...
Such disasters were routine for the last week of Lakes shipping. What was unusual was the uneventful trip of the last ore boat to come down the Lakes. F. John Bernard Martin, 51, tall, businesslike skipper of the Benson Ford (carrying cargo for U.S. Steel because the Ford fleet has excess capacity) reported "ideal" weather on his trip from Duluth through the Soo Locks to Conneaut, Ohio, and though the Sault River buoys had already been taken in, bright moonlight made it easy for him to pick his way at night...
Neither Snow Nor Rain. ... In Detroit, Postman Joseph T. Chichowski pleaded guilty to throwing away mail. He protested that "it got too heavy," declared that he had jettisoned only the second-and third-class cargo...