Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approaching Runway 18. A Boeing 727 crashed in rain little more than a mile from the orchard when the pilot miscalculated his approach during the evening of Nov. 8, 1965, killing 58 of the 62 persons aboard; on Nov. 14, 1961, two crewmen of a Zantop Airlines DC-4 freighter escaped before it exploded amid the apple trees...
...with gaudy paint. As a rule, the rivets and nails lhat hold the work together are left exposed because they make the work reminiscent of "machines that do something." Cristobal, for instance, is built of red, white and blue vinyl and is meant to suggest "the side of a freighter" going to some distant clime...
...help keep track of the anarchy raging inside the Communist giant. Thus the Russians have put up with having the wives and children of their Peking diplomats forced to crawl under portraits of Mao. Italy last week was enduring the truculence of the skipper of a Chinese freighter in Genoa bent on converting the Genovese to Mao. Last week alone, the Chinese accused nations as diverse as Burma, Kenya and Ceylon of participating in an unholy Soviet-American alliance against Peking...
...shipyards built 1,490 cargo ships and 50 baby aircraft carriers before the war was over. This amounted to one-third of all U.S. ships that were launched during the war. Kaiser's principal rule was speed ("There's no money in a slow job"), and one freighter was actually finished four days and 15 hours after the keel was laid...
Toward the end of World War II, Eugen Kielbasa, a German U-boat commander, torpedoes an Allied freighter in the South Atlantic. The skipper then orders his young gunnery officer, Emil Kummerol, to destroy all "floating wreckage"-including a dozen helpless survivors. Otherwise, he explains to his shocked crew, Allied planes and subchasers would detect and destroy the U-boat. One of the helpless seamen survives machine-gunning, grenade tossing, ramming, and torturous exposure to the sea. Because of his testimony, Kielbasa and Kummerol are eventually brought before an international war-crimes tribunal. The captain's defense is that...