Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain E. T. Barnette pushed a cargo-laden stern-wheeler ten miles up central Alaska's Chena River, halted when the waters became too shallow, and established a trading post from which, with the gold rush one year later, sprang the city of Fairbanks. Barnette should have settled on higher ground...
...existence as an independent nation for only 21 years, the Philippine Republic is still pushing back its own frontiers, and it has a carrier that is playing much the same part as the U.S. pioneers. It is Lusteveco (short for Luzon Stevedoring Co.), the biggest and fastest-growing commercial cargo handler in transportation-shy Southeast Asia...
...Department of Transportation and other federal agencies are now considering a preliminary proposal for passenger and cargo tests of an aircraft that could put the spring back in short-hop air travel. The tester: New York Airways, operator of a helicopter shuttle between Manhattan and nearby air ports. The plane: the Breguet 941, a spectacular French STOL (short takeoff and landing aircraft), with the capabili ty of handling passengers at points much closer to the centers of cities...
Downtown Landing. Shaped like a stubby blimp with wings, the 78-ft. Breguet 941 can carry 60 people or ten tons of cargo - 51 tons more than Cana da's de Havilland Caribou, the largest operational STOL-type transport. At 270 m.p.h., it also flies faster than any helicopter and has a greater maximum range: 500 miles. Developed as a mil itary assault transport, it can land fully loaded at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h...
...violence. The colony's Communist-controlled transportation union hoped to paralyze Hong Kong's vital ferry and bus lines. Despite the strike call, many drivers took out buses. Dozens of Communist mobs, composed of anywhere from 40 to 1,000 young toughs and armed with wickedly sharpened cargo hooks, stilettos and stones, terrorized the colony's teeming Chinese districts. They smashed windows, set scores of fires, broke traffic lights and tossed bottles of acid at the hard-pressed police. But the defiant busmen got the worst treatment: the mobs attacked drivers and passengers, burned ten buses...