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With purring motors turning whirring propellers, the U. S. A. S. Los Angeles glided from Lakehurst to the Bermudas with the greatest human cargo ever carried through the air-58 men all told. Besides these, the airship carried fuel for 50 hours' flying, rations for 60 hours, ten sacks of mail. Twelve hours at an average speed of 41.66 miles took the Los Angeles over the 500 miles of Atlantic that separates the U. S. from the Bermudas, where without untoward incident she was moored in a strong wind to the mast of the Patoka, reconstructed naval tender. Thus...
...WHITE CARGO-Wherein morals dry up under the blazing sun of Africa and the white man finds a native solution to the problem of loneliness...
...about Falkirk, Scotland, more than three-quarters of a century ago. It stood for Robbie, the Canadian lumberjack, who ventured into business for himself, bought a 300-ton boat because lumber freights were so high. It stood for the ingenious skipper who, stranded in the Philippines without a return cargo, waded ashore to a virgin island, found copra?the beginning of an industry that is now worth $22,000,000 annually. It stood for Captain Dollar ?the idol of China's merchants, who, in half a century, never caused him a single "bad debt." It stood for the commissionless...
...WHITE CARGO−White man and black woman drift irresistibly together under the poisonous influence of desert loneliness...
...BLACK CARGO-John P. Marquand-Scribner...