Word: ammo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Camp Liberty, Castro's main military headquarters. Darting through a curtain of antiaircraft fire, the B-26 swept over the camp toggling bombs, banked around for a rocket attack, then finished off by a strafing run with eight .50-cal. machine guns. As smoke from exploding ammo dumps and burning buildings spread over Castro's GHQ, radio reports crackled in of a similar B-26 raid on the military airport at Santiago, 460 miles away on the eastern end of the island...
...cans from the Army for 12? apiece. He found few takers until he discovered that the handles tilted to make an excellent shoe rest, so he peddled them as shoeshine stands, sold 196,000 to one customer for 20? apiece. "I'm known as the king of the ammo cans," says Tarashinsky...