Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illeitimate Freight...
Such is not the case. . . . The cases were unloaded along with all the other legitimate freight, and the narcotics came to light when the Customs officers made their inspection of the shipment. The French Line, which cooperates closely with the Customs service in its efforts to prevent smuggling in any form, could no more know what was in the shipment of "toys" than it can know what passengers are carrying in their trunks. . . -CLAYLAND T. MORGAN...
...advance concession to the Russian people, in case the Communist Party is presently forced to ask them to rally in arms around its regime. Latest reports place the number of Red Army troops concentrated on the Far East frontier at 100,000. Japanese warships will scarcely fire on neutral freight boats bringing to Vladivostok food for the Dictator's soldiers...
...first ship was the steam schooner Newsboy, a freighter to carry his timber. Shipping fascinated him and he increased his investment, going many times to the Orient to "drum up trade" with Chinese merchants. In 1924, aged 80, he established the first round-the-world passenger-freight service on a regular schedule. Many of his maritime adventures have been idealized in the "Cappy Ricks" stories by Capt. Dollar's fellow Californian Peter B. Kyne. Outstanding Dollar characteristics included extreme frugality, shrewdness, religious devotion. Surviving him are his widow, Margaret Proudfoot Dollar, and three sons, Alexander Melville Dollar, 54, Robert Stanley...
...Battalino, who had insisted on twelve rounds because he thought he had the edge for stamina, gathered himself for a last effort to make the kill. He sprang across the ring. But wise old Billy Petrolic, whose nickname "Fargo Express" refers to a far day when he handled freight in North Dakota, measured him as he came. Petrolle was tired. He looked discouraged, too. and his knees had sagged during several of Battalino's crazy assaults. But his straight left and lethally fast right were still accurate. He measured the bloody little man once more and took him hard...