Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle of them all the time." Airplanes dropped depth bombs, which made a lot of noise but did no damage. This fight was also within sight of a staring audience on the shore, which inspired the mild Klakring and his crew. They sank a tanker and an armed freighter...
Almost as casually as it would ship a tanker full of aviation gasoline or a freighter full of strategic materials, the U.S. Government is now shipping to its allies entire plants to manufacture the goods on the spot. Though that may sound like a Gargantuan job for the overburdened U.S. Merchant Marine, actually such shipments can often save both space and time in the long run. Last week's news of factories being knocked down for shipment to the United Nations...
...Near Detroit the machinery of Henry Ford's $5,600,000 "world's most advanced tire factory" is being dismantled for shipment to Russia. An integral part of River Rouge, it was designed on a streamlined rubber-freighter-to-finished-Lizzie basis five years ago. Its sale is a happy one for all concerned: the U.S.S.R. will gain a steady supply of more than 1,000,000 tires a year; the U.S. Government will fulfill a year-old promise to deliver such a plant to Russia, and Henry Ford will get Lend-Lease cash for a peacetime plant...
There was a low overcast. On the steel-grey ocean. Allied merchantmen were scattered from horizon to horizon. But some of the escort ships, tossing white water in their haste, had swerved from their courses to concentrate in one area. A Russian freighter, near enough for Seaman Herman to see the sailors on her deck, had already been torpedoed and was sinking. Astern of her another merchantman began to founder in the icy sea. Herman's ship could not wait. Rescue work, what there was time for, was up to the warships...
...months ago a German torpedo blew the stern off the South America-bound freighter La Paz, 40 miles off the Florida coast. Last week the 10,000-ton La Paz was tied up in Jacksonville waiting for repairs that would send her back to war. It was all thanks to William Radford Lovett, a 51-year-old Jacksonville businessman who now says he wishes he had minded his own business in the first place-despite the fact that both he and the war effort will be the richer for his meddling...