Word: shiploads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spot market has no big board, no floor, and at present, no ceiling-on prices anyway. It is often called the Rotterdam market because most of the world's spot oil moves through that Dutch port city. But the spot market exists anywhere that a trader with a shipload of oil available for immediate sale can connect with a big-ticket buyer. Transactions can be and have been made in London, Houston, Hong Kong and Eleventh Avenue diners in Manhattan...
Then there are vagaries to which the cruise business is subject. Tropical storms can be almost as devastating as the sudden breakdown of a ship. Many Caribbean islands are politically combustible beneath their Edenic exteriors. And the industry is periodically plagued by bad publicity every time a shipload of vacationers returns home doubled over with diarrhea. In a one-year period that ended last Thanksgiving, 73 cruise ships underwent a total of 625 U.S. Government sanitation-standards inspection tests -and failed the tests two-thirds of the time. Unfortunately there are no laws on the books that would allow Washington...
...Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe said that if each U.S. Catholic fasted for one meal a week, the money saved could buy $2.5 billion worth of food for the needy each year. (By such fasting over the past year, U.S. Catholics had already saved enough money to buy a shipload of rice, which they sent to Bangladesh during the congress.) Brazil's activist Archbishop Helder Camara called the world's unequal distribution of wealth "the greatest scandal of the century." Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, called on the U.S. to send food abroad...
...Briggs that is the key to the whole enterprise: it permits the material to be shipped without the buildup of dangerous methane gas. Barges and trucks bearing the finished product will soon be on their way to the port of Lake Charles, La., and in late January the first shipload will depart for Dubai. On arrival, the manure will be piped inland and sprayed together with grain seed upon barren ground. For six years the grain will be plowed under to build soil that should eventually bear food crops...