Word: shiploads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sentimental, fiesta-loving Barcelonians declared a holiday and thronged by the thousands to the waterfront one afternoon last week to welcome home a shipload of all but forgotten men: the last survivors of the ill-fated and ill-famed Blue Division that Franco sent off in 1941 to fight in Hitler's Wehrmacht on the Russian front. Captured by the Russians, the Spanish legionnaires had spent some ten years in Soviet forced-labor camps, were released and sent home as another installment in the Communist peace offensive...
...quite agree," he rumbled, "with the theory that the only way to increase our export of goods is to increase [foreign manufacturers'] opportunity to have their goods admitted into the U.S. I think every shipload of consumers' goods that comes to these shores from Germany, Japan, India, Italy or elsewhere is going to lay idle a corresponding number of American workmen and affect American business in the same ratio...
...demands for wages and pension funds have priced it out of the U.S. market; consumers have turned to oil and gas for cheaper fuel. The sickness was happily concealed immediately after World War II because both European and Asian coal mines were out of commission, and the U.S. exported shipload after shipload of coal to fill the gap. Now foreign mines are going again, and no amount of barter could induce foreign purchasers to pay the price for, and the freight on, U.S. coal. And no greater damage could be inflicted on a shaky, free world economy than to saddle...
Sometimes the God-fearing men of Nantucket were unable to get over the sight of the Pacific and its paradisial isles. The old records contain stories of men who left their ships and settled down with native women. Once, in 1824, a whole shipload of men mutinied, killed the officers of the Globe, and set up a short-lived kingdom on Mili Island...
Liberia, about the size of Mississippi, was founded in 1822 by the do-gooding American Colonization Society, which swapped a shipload of trinkets for 1,000 acres of jungle on which to relocate U.S. slaves. Liberia's capital, Monrovia, is named for President James Monroe; its constitution is based on that of the U.S. Population: 20,000 Christian descendants of the former slaves, who run the show; 1,500,000 jungle pagans, some of whom were not subdued until 1936. Resources: gold, iron ore, (Firestone) rubber...