Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment "not a single plane originally conceived solely to carry cargo is in service in the Western Hemisphere," but one-quarter of all the two-and four-engined planes scheduled for production this year will be cargo transports. By 1945, transports weighing from 100,000 to 120,000 Ib. will be "flying in quantity." Their ton-mile capacity will be ten times that of today's "work horse of the airlines," the 25,200-lb. Douglas...
...more ships, trucks and railroad cars will be needed to fuel and supply them. According to Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles I. Stanton, more than two 10,000-ton tanker loads of gasoline would be needed to refuel enough Clipper trips from New York to England to carry the cargo that one 10,000-ton freighter could take across in a single voyage...
From Captain Berdine came an order to pick up survivors. Latticed cargo nets were slung over the stern sides. Single lifelines dangled from the forward decks. Several bobbing Germans drifted within range, shouting "Kamerad! Kamerad!" A few hundred yards away the U-boat rocked and rolled, waves washing higher & higher over its knife-slim deck. She began to settle by the stern...
Near dusty Teheran, where cargo from the U.S. and Britain is taken over by the Russians, the plane slid down. Briefly the public eye caught the Archbishop in a characteristic pose. In an open-air chapel, once the Shah's garden, he celebrated field mass. A portable organ played; a U.S. servicemen's choir sang. The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies...
...under some Nazi bombers, is finally torpedoed by the dogging sub. Acting as captain in place of the wounded Massey, Bogart sets fire to his own decks, pretends to abandon ship, makes the Germans come to the surface, then rams and sinks them. The freighter limps into port with cargo intact...