Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried autos, lubricating oils, tires and EGA foodstuffs to the Mediterranean and India, hauling more than half of all U.S. ocean cargo to that area. Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco. From its 1,490,548 tons of freight and 13,337 passengers, American Export rolled up a $5,900,000 profit. American Export, already closest rival of U.S. Lines for U.S. transatlantic passenger supremacy, hopes to clinch the title next year when its two new luxury passenger liners, the Independence and the Constitution, are put in service...
...headed by Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm bought it lock, stock and whistle for a skimpy $1,500,000. Incoming Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater found the line loaded to the gunwales with mortgage debt, saw that one of its main assets was its European freight representative, John Francis Gehan. Bustling, ebullient "Jiggs" Gehan, known as "a man who does business with a handshake instead of a contract," found cargo for American Export ships in so many South European, African and Near Eastern ports that the line came to be called the "Milkman of the Mediterranean...
...reasoned that it might lessen his chance of being seen in the inky blackness. Sixty yards offshore a white headlight seemed to spot the whaleboat for a minute. Then it shifted back inland. All hands flattened in the bottom of the boat. Then they heard the rumble of a freight train heading toward the tunnel that was their target for the night...
Tomboy's one friend is Mick, the most timid boy in the gang. When he is killed in a robbery, Tomboy is left alone in a world of fear and violence. At the novel's end, she is hopping a freight car to get away from the police...
...took Haywood Patterson 17 years to get from Alabama to the North. His long trip began on a spring day in 1931, when he and eight companions were yanked off a freight train at Paint Rock, Ala., accused of raping two white girls who turned out to be common tramps. It carried him past the shadow of the electric chair three times, through the highest courts of the land and deep into the hard, rotten heart of the Alabama penal system. But in July 1948, Haywood Patterson finally made it. He escaped from Alabama's Kilby prison, crossed...