Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tankers. Some 2,500 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division boarded twelve Military Air Transport Service C-135 jets at Kentucky's Fort Campbell, landed at Adana, Turkey, in a miserable rain. There they switched to C-130s, their usual jump planes. From all over the U.S., various cargo craft headed east with combat equipment...
...that were wholly or largely owned by U.S. citizens. On that very day, in the port of Santa Maria, a ship was being loaded with sugar that had been produced by one of the expropriated companies, Compania Azucarera de Vertientes-Camaguey de Cuba, otherwise known as C.A.V. That white cargo set off on a four-year cruise through the U.S. courts...
...sugar had already been sold to a U.S. commodity broker, Farr, Whitlock & Co., but C.A.V. had not yet received payment. Before the Castro authorities would let the ship clear Cuban waters, Farr, Whitlock had to agree to pay the Cuban government for the sugar. Later on, after the cargo was delivered to its destination in Morocco, Farr, Whitlock found itself confronted with two insistent claimants. The Castro government, acting through a New York agent, demanded its money. So did the surviving corporate shell of C.A.V...
...Exodus, the inspiration of the novel by Leon Uris. Today ZIM sails on as a firm worth an estimated $140 million; its six passenger ships and 34 freighters carry 41% of all Israel's imports and 26% of its exports. This year ZIM plans to add another 19 cargo ships, which will make it one of the world's dozen largest lines, comparing respectably with Cunard (whose gross tonnage is actually smaller than ZIM's) and U.S. Lines...
...with thousands of tons of wheat bound for Russia. At pierside, nine ships waited to load. But for nine days the wheat moved no farther. Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason, 63, president of the International Long shoremen's Association, had ordered his stevedores to touch not one kernel of cargo. The great wheat deal, it seemed, was stymied...