Word: freights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason for all this was a familiar one: the chronic freight-car shortage had become critical again. There were not enough cars to haul coal, wood, oil as fast as they could be produced...
...freight-handlers at Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport, it was just another box-a little on the heavy side, to be sure, but nothing out of the ordinary. They heaved it onto a hand-truck and dumped it in the storeroom. Shortly after midnight, strange things began to happen. A freight-handler saw the box move. Its lid lifted slowly and startled eyes glinted in the gloom. American Overseas Airlines Official William Waring investigated. "I opened the box," he told reporters later, "and saw a pair of eyes and some hair. Then she stepped out-no shirt...
...where he got a job as a truck driver in Manhattan. Gitte longed for Rolf and Rolf longed for Gitte. Rolf filed affidavits for her support, but for two years official red tape held her fast in Frankfurt. At last Gitte decided to ship herself by air freight...
...Manhattan hall bedroom, Rolf Berndt puzzled over the strange cable: "Send $150. See Gitte soon, (signed) Siedentopf." Rolf was a cautious man. Says he: "I wasn't going to send money to someone I never heard of." So in the air freight office at Frankfurt, Private, Siedentopf and his fragile burden waited in vain while airport officials waved a bill for $130 freight charges. "Can't I send it C.O.D.?" asked the G.I. The answer was no. "Oh, well, then just store it. I'll be back." Into the storeroom went the box. After an uncomfortable...
...Thank God she's alive," said Rolf Berndt when someone told him that Gitte would almost certainly have frozen to death in the unheated freight compartment of a Stratoliner. Sighed an airline official in Frankfurt: "Just say that I'd like to have some woman love me enough to fly to New York in that little...