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...bodies, the nauseating job of disinterment for transfer to Finschhafen was given to native labor, but American G.I.s had to load them on the ship. . . . As the result of this experimental trip an order was issued that no Coast Guard-manned Army ship should load this type of cargo again because of the hazard to the health, well-being and morale of the crew...
Most of the cargo would have to ripen before being sold. Then it will go to under-18s only; adults must wait for the next shipload from Jamaica...
Speedy Haul. The first commercial all-freight flight across the Atlantic took off from LaGuardia Field for London with $41,000 worth of merchandise. The pioneering Pan American DC-4 hauled a 3,520-lb. cargo: 1,900 lbs. (1,000 meals) of frozen food; 225 lbs. of mink and Alaska lynx furs valued at $36,000; consumer staples, such as pipes, tobacco, fruit cake, fresh pineapple, clothing, cosmetics, books, stationery, radio equipment...
Lowell Yerex had but $25 to his name when he founded TACA Airways. He built his Latin American airline into the world's largest cargo carrier. But TACA remained a one-man show and Yerex made all the decisions. Last week it looked as if someone else had finally made a decision for tough, one-eyed Mr. Yerex. Out he went as president of TACA, the climax to a long struggle for control of the company...
Soon Sailor Slobodkin (self-described as "a fat, soft guy with glasses") found himself loading cargo, eating slop and doing soogie moogie (scrubbing paint work) with a crew as oddly assorted as flotsam & jetsam on a beach. There was a union-conscious Portuguese named Perry. "His cross eyes seemed to set the motive for all his movement-when he'd sit down, he'd cross his legs, cross his arms . . . . I never saw him standing with his legs straight...