Israeli and Lebanese trucks shuttled back and forth loaded with the cornucopia of Israeli commerce -- new cars, motorcycles, trucks and electronic appliances, cargos of meat and fresh fruit and vegetables, tanker-trucks loaded with gasoline and diesel fuel, pharmaceuticals, clothing, shoes and what-not-else.
"They're taking money out of my pocket," said Lee Ranaldson, 63, a nonunion trucker from Cleveland who said he had been blocked from dropping off his cargo of refrigerated meat for more than 12 hours.
After the ship had unloaded at Mersel-Kebir, she carried more troops to West Africa, & then went to Argentina for a cargo of frozen meat to take back to England.
Batavier Vs cargo of fresh meat and Zaanstrooms 300 LT of fresh eggs were confiscated and unloaded by German personnel.
On the 27th, Brodmore and her cargo of frozen meat from Majunga were sunk off Libya (and her master taken prisoner), and on the 28th the Japanese steamer Shinsei Maru was sunk nearby.
She reached Buenos Aires, where a cargo of 3000 LT of meat was loaded, and called at Santos where a cargo of oranges was loaded.
So in the summer of 1923 they boarded the Highland Loch, which was calling in at the Canaries en route to Buenos Aires with its cargo of passengers and, apparently, chilled meat.
The ship, part of Convoy SL-36, was en route from Buenos Aires to London with a cargo of 5,630 tons of frozen meat and 1,000 tons of oranges.
With its $100 prostitutes, its $30 meals of meat, spuds and ice cream, and its harbor choked with ships whose cargos were never unloaded because the crews ran off to the gold fields, San Francisco is the perfectly surreal centerpiece of "The Sisters Brothers".
