freighter
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A headlong drive for efficiency cut the average time needed to assemble a “Liberty Ship” freighter from around eight months shortly after Pearl Harbor to barely one month by 1945.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The MD-11F freighter operated by UPS, crashed after one of its engines separated from the wing as it was preparing to take off from Louisville.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
In one operation about 35 nautical miles from the small island of Gavdos, off Crete, a coastguard vessel, a Danish freighter and a helicopter took 365 people off a fishing boat, according to the agency.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
In the meantime factories building the 737 Max, the 777 and the 767 freighter have all been affected by the walk outs.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024
History’s first aerial bombing and sinking of a ship at sea took place in February 1916, when a German bomber sank a British freighter.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
