Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNICEF's principal role in the current crisis, Mrs. Williams said, has been gathering and shipping food. The freighter Orient Express, hired by UNICEF left Houston for Nigeria last week, loaded with the first large shipment of food for Nigeria-Biafra--5000 tons--she said...
...people I ever saw." Exactly 41 days, eight hours and 15 minutes later, Schuster's 60-h.p. Thomas Flyer arrived in San Francisco, thus ending the easiest part of the trip. Five foreign cars-from a French De Dion to an Italian Zust-trailed far behind. Boarding a freighter, Schuster headed to Japan, crossed to Vladivostok, then set out on the long trek across Siberia. Where there were no roads, Schuster made do with railroad tracks. When he ran out of oil, he lubricated the engine with Vaseline, a substance that lesser men of the era used on their...
James Michener first visited Spain as a chart boy aboard a freighter that hauled oranges from the eastern coast to the marmalade factories of Dundee. In the 35 years since then, he has returned repeatedly, both as a knockabout traveler and a rich tourist. In his book he makes no effort to prettify the country's problems or ignore its faults. As long as Spain remains ruled by the army, the landed families and the church, he sees scant hope of any dramatic social or industrial progress-although he does grant that there have been genuine advances in recent...
...railroad accident the sophisticated techniques used to determine the causes of plane crashes-an obvious but hitherto unheard-of innovation -it has found the "probable cause" (a switchman's error) of a collision in New York City last year. After the foundering of a 60-year-old freighter on Lake Huron in 1966 (28 died), it ordered the Coast Guard to intensify inspection of older ships plying the Great Lakes. Even a proposal to widen the breadth of trucks by six inches (to 102 inches) has not escaped the board's eye; unless highways are correspondingly widened...
America's longshoremen have long staged their own reprisals against enemies foreign and domestic, as in their refusal in 1964 to load U.S. wheat onto Russian-bound freighters. Now Dr. Benjamin Specie, 64, baby doctor and Viet Nam dissenter, has felt the fury of their wrath. Dock workers in Manhattan disdained to haul Spock's new 35-ft. ketch Carapace aboard the freighter Atlantic Clipper, headed for the Virgin Islands, where Spock has a winter home. Carapace's builders announced that they would sail the boat to the Caribbean themselves...