Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lurched successfully through the minefield of the week, voting to reject demands for a general wage increase for 220,000 workers in eight West Coast aircraft plants. But the margin of success was narrow (the vote was 7-to-5). Thus far the Board had not jettisoned its heavy cargo, the wage-raise yardstick (15% increases to cover the rise in living costs to May 1942), but all around the angry waters of inflation were lashed ever higher by labor's big winds...
...convoy plowed westward deep into the Bismarck Sea before Kenney struck. High above the convoy, Fortresses first laid a closely woven pattern of bombs. A 6,000-ton Jap cargo ship broke in half. A 10,000-tonner, hit five times, went up in flames. Another cargo ship caught fire. Twice again that day, Fortresses and Liberators returned to the attack, shot down five defending Zeros...
...second morning, Mitchell B258 dumped 500-lb. bombs on the enlarged target. Ten minutes later came Australian Beaufighters. Next another wave of Mitchells dropped explosives on dodging cargo ships and destroyers. This fight was for the kill. The Mitchells swooped low to strafe lifeboats and rafts. A destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with...
...thing to it. His manufacturing divisions make all types of aviation parts, his new-formed Consolidated Vultee makes all kinds of aircraft, his Aviation Corp. holds 10 to 34% stock interests in Pan American Airways, American Airlines and Roosevelt Field. And Consolidated's own Consairways operates a vast cargo-carrying airline across the Pacific...
...improvement over this year's record. Half of the 2,000-odd ships planned for 1944 are to be faster (15 knots), costlier (over $40 a ton), larger and more efficient than the present Liberty. Ship for ship, the new Libertys should deliver up to 50% more cargo a year than their forerunners...