Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stinking Copra. Last week a crew of six San Francisco longshoremen finished the nine-day job of unloading 7,000 tons of stinking, oil-laden copra from the Liberty ship Silvana. A tracked vehicle pried the gooey cargo from the holds, hoisted it into a vacuum tube that shot it into a conversion plant. A few years ago 18 men would have worked two weeks to unload the Silvana...
Similarly, it used to take six days to transfer a load of passenger cars off Matson's Hawaiian Motorist; the ship can now dock, unload and be back at sea in seven hours. Where 14-man gangs worked twelve shifts to load cargo containers into a Matson ship, a ten-man gang can now perform the complete loading job in just two shifts...
...more than three centuries, Zanzibar was the jumping-off place for adventurers and explorers and a sanctuary for slavers, who carried their black cargo from the mainland beyond the range of avenging tribes. Swept by the monsoons, dhows from the Arabian peninsula brought Moslem raiders who installed Arab sultans and kept the island's black majority in bondage cultivating the clove groves (the island still supplies 75% of the world's cloves). After the British took over in 1890, troops kept the racial peace, but today race riots sporadically erupt. Though the Arabs make up less than...
...aluminum transmission tow er to Florida Power Co. Aluminum is going into more and more boats as well as into railroad cars and truck bodies; New Orleans' Avondale Shipyards recently launched the world's largest aluminum barge, a giant whose lightness enables it to carry 14% more cargo weight than similar steel barges...
...NAPOLEON by J. Christopher Herold. 420 pages. American Heritage. $18.95. Volumes as heavily freighted with plates, maps and other cargo as this one have a way of scanting facts for four-color fanfares. This is a welcome exception. The text is both sound and readable, and the 300-odd illustrations, most of them by contemporaries of Napoleon, serve quite magnificently to convey the age's arts, manners and personalities to the eye and mind of a reader...