Word: bargeload
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...rehitched so that they can set sail for Seattle. But for Kardonsky, the most experienced skipper in the fleet, a more savage task remains. The Cavalier has to tow one last load of equipment to Prudhoe Bay. The tug will return to Wainwright, hook up with a bargeload of pipes from Japan and once more swing east. Feeling the menacing bite of the chill September air, the crew will be praying harder than usual that the Arctic not mistake Kardonsky's nerve for defiance. -By Michael Moritz
...Athletic Department, a bargeload of money...
...qualified for the U.S.'s endangered list. But with time running out, there was no guarantee that the U.S. would be able to remove all of the remaining 140,000 on the list by air. At week's end U.S. planners were reported ready to risk sending the first bargeload of evacuees 70 miles down the snaking Saigon River past the muzzles of enemy guns to Vung Tau. For obvious reasons, details of the plan were a closely kept secret. The sight of 5,000 Vietnamese being hauled away in a single barge could set off exactly the kind...
...Athenians there was one happy occasion last week. At Piraeus, the port of Athens, Archbishop Damaskinos said a blessing over a bargeload of flour (see cut). It was the first tangible evidence of the $17,000,000 worth of supplies sped to Greece under the U.S. aid program...
...never had before. NBC's Wright Bryan had a recorder aboard a transport plane going in with paratroops. He described the scene and tension admirably, but none of his words matched the fateful clicks as the paratroopers hooked up their automatic release belts. A BBC recording caught a bargeload of British Tommies singing For Me and My Gal on their way to Normandy...