Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petroleum cartel. The export price of bananas has remained flat for two decades at about 80 per Ib., while retail prices have climbed steadily, mostly to the benefit of three U.S.-owned companies that grow, ship and market the fruit: United Brands, Del Monte and Standard Fruit & Steamship. Acting singly, the growing countries could not get a bigger slice of the banana pie. Unlike petroleum, bananas cannot be stockpiled; in fact, they must be eaten within twelve days of being picked or they become too soft fpr most palates. So if any one country tried to raise taxes, the three...
With the help of his set designer and choreographers, director Ken Kanter has made everything go. It seems incredible that the handkerchief stage of Leverett should represent a steamship, but Michael Herter's set offers Cunard luxury -- a gangway, two decks, three staterooms. The direction of Kanter and his choreographers -- Michael Ricardo, Lise Landis and Michael Collapy -- creates out of the small cast the impression of an extravaganza; their next goal should be precision...
...four years old when, steaming at full speed through fog over the Grand Banks, freighted with "manhood in its strength and daring, and woman in her trust and beauty, and youth with its sunny gladness," as a preacher wrote later, the Arctic collided with a small iron-hulled French steamship and sank. Crew members commandeered all but one of the lifeboats, and most of the 233 passengers, including the owner's wife and two children, drowned. Two years later the Collins Line's Pacific steamed into an ice field and disappeared without a trace. But nothing could alter...
Great Swan became a weather station in 1914, but it was 1960 before the real Swan song began. A New York company called Gibraltar Steamship Corp.. which owned no steamships, set up shop on the island with a 50,000-watt transmitter. Gibraltar, of course, was a CIA cover, and Radio Swan was soon booming propaganda to Fidel Castro's Cuba, 350 miles away. It called Castro and his lieutenants "pigs with beards" and accused Brother Raul Castro of being "a queer with effeminate friends." In reply, Havana Radio called Swan "a cage of hysterical parrots...
...Mexicans-a union rule that now helps Ensenadans earn a total of $40,000 a day-U.S. firms have sent dozens of representatives to oversee the operation. Says Captain D.W. Cowan of Prudential-Grace Lines' San Francisco office: "We have enough people to set up our own steamship agency...