Word: repack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free ports, comparatively new to the U.S., have been common in Europe since Hanseatic League days. Merchants can bring goods into a free port without paying duties and without posting bonds; they can store their merchandise, sort it and repack it for export. Only if & when the goods enter the country proper are they dutiable. The day New Orleans' free port opened, it got its first customer-a Chicago liquor importer who planned to keep his liquor there in kegs, import it in bottles as needed...
Informal Dance at the Parker House, restricted to those of the Mid-Off School. . . . For those of you who don't know, the Parker House Roof is not open to Boston's salty breezes, so repack those woolies. It is really a smooth place to dance--with all the comforts of home--a cocktail bar attached, that is. Midshipmen and Senior Officers are invited to the function, which gives promise of being just what we have all been waiting...