Word: boatload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gradually phased out of the spook business and used instead for weather reports and sending navigation signals. The U.S. eventually decided that the islands could be safely given away. For Honduras, which has claimed them since 1923, Swan has long been a symbol of Yankee imperialism. In 1961 a boatload of students sailed out to plant the Honduran flag on Great Swan. Invited ashore, they flew their flag, stayed for sandwiches and beer, and then sailed home...
...make profits both coming and going. Their aim is not to sell their products at all, but to keep them moving around in a circle, changing labels at each border as subsidies and tariffs dictate. One Antwerp grain dealer set some kind of agro record by shipping the same boatload of wheat back and forth between Antwerp and Rotterdam for days. The cargo was never unloaded, but simply relabeled with the name of a different kind of grain at each port...
These explorers allegedly set foot in the New World around 135 A.D. "There was more than one boatload," Cyrus H. Gordon said last Sunday. "Perhaps it was a two-way affair, with some colonists returning to the Old World to spread the news. We do not know how long this colony lasted...