Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like giant locusts, the helicopters settled on the peaks of the Aurès Mountains, unloaded their cargo of French paratroopers. In the narrow valleys below, French infantry sweated and scrambled their way up the rocky slopes. Trapped between land and air, units of the rebel F.L.N. fought to the death or fled into the surrounding oak and pine forests. A French communiqué tersely announced that 300 rebels were slain...
...that only power counts, and proposed a two-stage assistance program. The first would be shipment of non-military supplies-which, to avoid provoking a general conflict, would be landed at allegedly neutral ports in Tunisia and Morocco. Last week the Soviet freighter Fatezh arrived at Tunis with a cargo of machine tools, tractors, cars, clothes and food for the rebels. The second phase is scheduled to begin when the F.L.N. can take, and hold, a sliver of Algerian territory from the French. Then the Soviet Union will undertake to supply the F.L.N. openly. Khrushchev reportedly said: "Once you fully...
...return, Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union gave the employers a free hand to eliminate featherbedding and increase efficiency on the docks. The employers will now be able to determine for themselves how many longshore gangs are needed, the weight of slingloads of cargo, and the number of times cargo will be handled in loading and unloading. Explained Pacific Maritime President J. Paul St. Sure: "We are gambling $5,000,000 a year against the right this contract gives us to remove work restrictions in the belief we can save that much or more...
Stacked three-deep on new split-level flatcars, some 2,000 new Ford and Chrysler cars swept south from St. Louis last week on the rails of the St. Louis-San Francisco railroad. The shiny cargo represented the largest weekly auto shipments the Frisco had ever carried. It also signaled a comeback of U.S. railroads in the competition for automobile freight transport, which a few years ago seemed won by the trucking industry...
...have joined in a nettlesome guerrilla force estimated at 400 to 1,000 fighting men. Castro has sent 10,000 to 15,000 militia to surround the rebels, who apparently are getting weapons by air. Last week the Cubans were getting so nervous that they forced down a Nicaraguan cargo plane, grilled the pilots for eight hours...