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With a four goal lead the varsity offense slackened off, and for the rest of the night consisted mostly of sporadic rushes on the Tech cargo, which was often des tended only by the goalie. Most of the latter scores cames as a result of individual ability, a quality supplied admirably by the Key brothers, Myles Huntington, Dave Abbot, and Doug Anderson...
...Instrument flying was the rule rather than the exception. On some days the airlift terminals were socked in so tightly that operations were suspended for as long as nine hours at a time. But after the first month of Germany's rugged winter weather, the daily average of cargo hauled stood at 4,229 tons-only some 300 tons below minimum needs...
...about the teamsters' battles to contain Harry Bridges' inland march into uptown Seattle warehouses: "We always used indoor bats with about four inches sawed off so we could hide them in the sleeves of our coats. We had to use bats because the longshoremen fought with their cargo hooks.* Sailors used a two-foot length of tracer chain, or wrapped window-sash chain around their fists...
Mister Roberts. Rowdy, romantic, often hilarious yarn of life on a cargo ship during-but far from-the war (TIME, March...
...with him, as stewardess). On his flights he keeps a sharp eye out for new business; so do his pilots. One recently took off with a load of Army supplies for Germany. In Paris he loaded up with Jewish emigrants bound for Australia, in Australia he drummed up a cargo of meat for Guam; from Guam he carried furloughed workers to Oakland, Calif., where Transocean headquarters sent him back to Windsor Locks, Conn., his starting point, with airplane parts. Transocean got its first big contract-ferrying 7,000 British immigrants to Canada (TIME, April 19)-when one of its navigators...