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Word: cargoed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret airport in India, a flight of pot-bellied new U.S. air freighters settled on the runways, waddled up to the parking line, disgorged their cargo through yawning doors in their fuselages. As American airmen watched this sight last week, they caught a glimpse of a bright postwar world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: The Limitless Sky | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...general confusion. What air transport there was in battle zones was done largely by combat pilots in war craft, which were loaded to the last limit of safety. Not until July 1942, when the Air Ferrying Command became Air Transport Command, was there an organized effort to fly cargo regularly over established routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: The Limitless Sky | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...Army will not be completely equipped until late in 1944-despite the "truly remarkable job American business and industry have done in 17 months." Essential cargo for the available shipping is still difficult to supply. On many occasions equipment has been withdrawn from troops in training to supply troops overseas. Rumors that the army is so flooded with equipment that plants have had to shut down are fifth-column rumors designed to slow production. Some cutbacks in schedules have occurred. But only in one field, ammunition, is there a reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in WPB -- Again | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Waterways, Airways, Trucks. Only six months ago, barges lay idle on most of the nation's rivers and canals. Now only the southbound movement of freight on the Ohio and Mississippi is not at near-capacity levels. No. 1 war cargo on the waterways is oil; No. 2, coal. Busiest U.S. barge canal is the Gulf Intra-Coastal (Corpus Christi, Tex. to Carabelle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle Report from OWI | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...most poignant memory of our first day at Radcliffe concerns the ladders of Briggs Hall. On the first trip up to the fourth deck we labored with a load of luggage. The second jaunt was a struggle to keep a toehold under a four-foot stack of publications. Last cargo hauled by this Naval Transportation Service was fifteen pounds of bedding...

Author: By Jean Colgate and Ensigns RUTH Wolgast, S | Title: Creating a Ripple | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

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