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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bung to Ontario's liquor supply is a clause providing that liquor may not be warehoused by the makers, that it must be kept in transit. Commercial enterprise has kept this bung out. Scores of warehouses line the Ontario shoreline and load up U. S. rum-runners. Diplomatic pressure, probably, was what drove the bung in last week, when the Ontario Liquor Control Board seized $5,000,000 of beer and whiskies in two warehouses at Windsor. Thirty other storage plants with $50,000,000 worth of goods were threatened...
...load: That part of the load from which revenue is derived (passengers, freight...
...Useful load: Crew and passengers, oil and fuel, ballast other than emergency, ordnance and portable equipment...
...largest single load of mail ever transported by air, weighing 1,839 Iks., has been shipped from Cuba...
...deserve special mention because they rank among the great athletic teams of all times. The 1901 Varsity took advantage of unusually favorable water conditions at Poughkeepsie to establish a world's record of 18 minutes 53½ seconds for 4 miles. Bert Coffin's 1903 boat load of giants while interfered with in the first two miles of the race on the same course were only a few seconds behind this record, 18-57-1/5. They rowed the last two miles eleven seconds faster than the first two miles. Quite unusual I think! Their nearest competitor...