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Word: repack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Port of Dreams | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: By W. M. Cousine and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/1/1944 | See Source »

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