Word: reefers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lashing rain-heavy southwest wind which the Italians call libeccio roared down on the U.S. refrigerator ship Grommet Reefer one night last week outside the crammed seaport of Leghorn. In the raging seas, the ship's engines were powerless as eggbeaters. Within minutes, the Grommet Reefer was hung up on a reef only 150 yards from shore...
...jettisoned oil and fresh water to lighten ship. Then he turned over his engines again in a futile hope of pulling clear. Within half an hour, the 3,800-tonner began to buckle amidships; minutes later, when all 39 crewmen had made their way to the stern, the Grommet Reefer tore in half as if broken over a giant's knee. From her holds spewed turkeys, fish, meat, beer and other supplies bound for the Christmas meals of U.S. troops in Austria...
...this point Danny's story had a deadly familiar ring. Every year, thousands of teen-agers take the first step to narcotic addiction-usually by smoking a reefer (a cigarette containing marijuana) because they don't want to be called "chicken." Dope peddlers have been pushing their wares through high schools and street gangs. Now estimates of the number of addicts range anywhere from...