Word: interisland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Postwar Windfall. Braving such obstacles, Lusteveco deploys a fleet of 500 trucks on land, a small coastal navy of 16 tankers, 107 tugs and 448 barges at sea, and a string of modern warehouses at major ports. The company moves 80% of the country's vital interisland traffic: home-grown timber, coconut and sugar on its way to port for overseas markets; steel, machinery and other imports headed from Luzon to other parts of the nation. Lusteveco stevedores shoulder nearly all the Philippines' foreign trade borne by ships, which may be docked by Lusteveco tugs, provisioned at Lusteveco...
Relying on the interisland liners, charter yachts, or smaller, 30-ft. caïques that sleep two or three (for $40 a day), travelers can move on southeast to the Cyclades: Santorin, with its unearthly landscape; Paros, from which the masters quarried their famous marble; and Mykonos, which has lately become a kind of Grecian Capri. For 50?, travelers can make the round-trip caïque ride to nearby Delos, Apollo's birthplace, which the Greek government maintains as an uncommercialized museum. There, in an eerie, glaring white silence, are the remarkable ruins of houses, theaters and temples...