Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 1,000 of his men drowned. The battered remains of the ships' hulls sank in 30 feet of murky water. Spanish recovery crews, pirates and poachers, hampered by deceitful currents, sharks, barracuda, moray eels and needle-sharp coral, recovered only $6,000,000 worth of the cargo...
...blackened silver coins that occasionally washed ashore. None of them, he noted, were dated later than 1715. Wagner began ransacking libraries for data on the 1715 catastrophe. He managed to obtain 3,000 feet of microfilmed documents from Seville archives, found details of the Silver Plate fleet's cargo manifestoes plus testimony from the official investigation of the wreck...
...approximately 75,000 troops this year. The logistical expansion has been equally massive: 24 major airfields where previously there were nine, ten important seaports completed or under construction compared with one. A fleet of 472 supply ships plies the route to South Viet Nam, and an average of 30 cargo planes arrives daily. By late 1966, according to Mc-Namara, the U.S. and its allies achieved a stupendous rate of fire: 1,700,000 artillery and mortar rounds and 100 million small-arms bullets per month...
...Nome. In New Mexico, incoming Republican Governor David Cargo proposed a federal-type cabinet system to replace an anarchic maze of 214 separate boards, commissions and offices. Said he: "Our constitution has been patched and overhauled to the point where the original design is obscured and where present and future needs are obliterated...
...Crusades to liberate Jerusalem from the infidels amounted to a war of aggression launched by the church, with license for every kind of excess in the name of Christ. That the same body that could impose the Peace and Truce of God should be capable of rejoicing in a cargo of Saracen noses and thumbs or of filling the Temple of Solomon with blood has been the dark paradox of religious faith in every time and place. Just and holy wars are incompatible. The just war is predicated on awareness of human intemperateness, inadequacy and guilt; the holy war drowns...