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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil's biggest cocoa port, some 180 stevedores were in the seventh week of a strike called to increase the size and pay of stevedore gangs that load cocoa aboard ships. The demands would raise the handling cost for a ton of cargo to $49 (v. $12 in New York) and price Brazil's cocoa right out of world markets...
...money they demand and pull down, Brazilian dockers get precious little work done. Along the Brazilian coast, a ship often needs several weeks to dock, unload, load and steam away again. At Santos recently, one ship was 60 days loading 16,000 tons of corn. By the time the ship finally weighed anchor, kernels of corn that had trickled into deck crevices had sprouted into vigorous plants. As port costs spiral, more and more foreign ships steam past Brazil's congested harbors, and dockworkers are now beginning to complain about lack of work. Their inevitable reaction: strikes for more...
...rest of the tactical atomic wallop comes in comparatively "little" packages. Yet many of these nuclear runts can carry up to a 100-kiloton load-which is five times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. These include the Army's 75-mile Sergeant (now replacing the aging Corporal), Lacrosse (for pinpoint blasting of pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such...
Flags on the Rigging. The white marlin's poundage makes it a light-tackle fish by strict fishermanly standards, but charter-boat skippers usually load their reels with 50-lb. test line to give their clients a fighting chance. Even so, the big ones often get away. But there are days when everything goes right, when the marlins gobble every bait in sight, when the Jack Spot boils with leaping fish, and blue and white flags flutter gaily on the rigging of the boats-one flag for each marlin caught...
Front-End Loaders. The SEC did not by any means condemn all mutual funds, but centered its fire on the "contractual" funds, in which the investor signs up to buy regular monthly shares over a period of years. The commission, or "load," on mutual fund sales is typically 8.5%, plus a "custodian's fee" of 1% to 3%. What irked the SEC study group is that commissions commonly run to 50% during the first year of the so-called "front-end load" plans, in which more than 1,000,000 small investors have contracted to make monthly payments...