Word: crates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loading took the better part of two days as the longshoremen, who boast they can load 100 tons an hour, secured one 64-ton crate every 20 minutes. This week, weather and the courts permitting, Le Baron will be towed to a point 238 miles off the Florida coast and scuttled in 16,000 feet of water...
...cities of Latin America are littered with cardboard and packing-crate shantytowns that house hordes of landless peasants in search of jobs. Usually such squatters' settlements are either deliberately overlooked by officialdom or broken up by police within a few days. In the Chilean capital of Santiago, however, a luxuriantly mustached leftist named Victor Toro, 28, has founded a poblacion callampa ("mushroom town") that the government cannot ignore and the police cannot destroy...
...Jakie McCulloch, wife of a New York journalist, felt stirrings of annoyance when a crew of packers arrived three hours late at her Washington home to crate her family's belongings for a move to Old Greenwich, Conn. She watched anxiously as they tramped mud on the expensive living-room rug and grumbled incessantly about their low pay ($10 an hour). At 3 a.m. on a Friday, the packers were finished and Mrs. McCulloch offered them a $45 tip, which the crew boss pocketed for himself. Then the movers came. They demanded that she list for them the contents...