Word: unload
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...stock will have to be laid in for winter. The pinch is so sharp that it may be necessary to ship most of the return-voyage coal by rail, rushing the boats back empty. Coal takes only three to five hours to load, but eight to twelve hours to unload...
...sent to one pier were told by Army chiefs to stand by, as the cargo was not yet available. After two hours they were told to start loading onions. They loaded onions for three hours. Then they were told a mistake had been made. They were ordered to unload the onions...
Traffic in Pacific Coast ports is still 40% above November's. New Orleans' traffic is up 30%; it is getting many a Caribbean ship that used to unload on the East Coast before the U-boats came. The switch saves many days at sea, but means many days more work for the loaded railroads...
...eyes of their opposite numbers from the U.S. One army flight of three jumped 20 Jap planes, knocked out three, chased the rest, picked up a straggler on the way home and sent him down in flames. A bombing flight lumbered serenely through heavy ack-ack fire to unload on warships, then kicked off altitude and strafed a landing party on the beach...
...vessels, marshal them into convoys, hold the fast ones down to the pace of the slow, expose them to damage, load and unload them in bombed ports, reroute them may reduce the efficiency of an already inadequate merchant marine by 50%. Most shipping between the U.S. and Malaya, for example, will now go around the Cape of Good Hope. That route is 4,360 miles farther from New York than the route across the Pacific from San Francisco...