Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many Lend-Lease ships which heretofore returned from Britain with Scotch whiskey are now returning with chalk as ballast. Reason: British stocks of Scotch are running low. Consequence: the U.S. supply of Scotch (now sufficient for about six months) will also begin to decline rapidly...
...United Fruit Co., lately a $1-a-year man in the Maritime Commission. Robson's job will be to use every inch of ship space to best effect, see that never again does a ship sail-as one carrying a fleet of Army trucks did recently-with ballast where cargo could have been piled...
...food that goes to Hawaii will probably not only feed the populace, but also afford a chance to save the factors' crops. The ships that carry supplies to the Islands may well take back sugar or pineapples instead of returning in ballast...
...supernumeraries in this novel include a 300-year-old tree trunk which shatters transcontinental telephone connections, an owl whose electrocution weakens a wire, a boar whose drowning plugs a culvert and washes ballast from a canyon railroad track, a young telephone linesman, a power dispatcher, a highway superintendent for the Donner Pass section of U.S. 40, a junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions...
...history professors and students then serving in various ranks of the A.E.F. He sent them in uniform to the governments whose people he was feeding. They made the right contacts, snooped for archives. They found so many that Hoover was soon shipping them back to the U.S. as ballast in the empty food boats...