Word: freighter
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...lots of adventures," he says. "I worked on a tramp freighter. You didn't have to worry about being stabbed in the back by a Chinese Communist in those days. So I went all the way around the world...
Converted last spring from a lowly Army freighter of the sort that toted toothpaste and toilet paper around the South Pacific during World War II, the ship was on her first surveillance mission, gathering intelligence practically on the doorstep of Russia's Pacific fleet headquarters at Vladivostok. The spooking game is a lonely one at best, but as Pueblo's 83-man crew and the rest of the world learned last week, it can also be perilous...
...fighter-bombers hammered away at bridges close to Hanoi and Haiphong, and hit one supply route within nine miles of the Chinese border. A raid on Haiphong drew an official protest from Moscow, which claimed that a U.S. bomb had hit a barge only six feet from the Soviet freighter Pereslavl-Zalessky, moored in the city's harbor, severely damaging the Russian ship. The U.S. State Department apologized, but it noted that it had warned that ships entering Haiphong harbor ran the risk of damage despite the best efforts of U.S. pilots to prevent such incidents...
...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...