Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trading in wheat along the Baltic coast. In 1876, when the first immense shipments of grain began to flow to Europe from the Pampas, young Ernest Bunge and his brother-in-law, George Born, emigrated from Antwerp to Buenos Aires and started a branch that soon overshadowed its European trunk. The company expanded even more rapidly under Ernest Bunge's successor, German-born Alfred ("Don Alfredo") Hirsch, who used the grain trade profits to diversify into milling and manufacturing. Since Hirsch's death in 1956, the domain has been run by a cosmopolitan band of second-generation Argentines...
...diggers. But any Communists ready to denounce the West Berlin tunnel business ought to know about low-ranking Communist bloc diplomats stationed in East Berlin. Their pitch is also directed at families split by the Wall; since they have diplomatic privileges, they offer to put a refugee in the trunk of a car and drive him west without any trouble. The Reds ask the going price, $250, in advance. Some of the refugees actually get out that way, but most often they are delivered straight to the Vopos...
...Simultaneously, the New York City Ballet is en route to Moscow. The U.S. dancers took with them dozens of cans of tuna fish, vegetables and soup. Evidently they plan to cook. Ballerina Melissa Hayden reportedly has 24 cans of Sterno in her trunk...
...quite so big a mess as transportation. The nation's major railroads last year earned less than 2% on invested capital, and the big Eastern roads plunged $96 million into the red. This year times are just as tough. As for the nation's eleven trunk airlines, stuck with too many costly jets and too few passengers, they lost $5.5 million in 1962's first half, have not turned in a cumulative profit since...
...essays about adult nonsense, shows the world of Louisville as it was seen in 1904 by ten-year-old Virginia Cary Hudson, then a pupil in an Episcopal boarding school. Its publishers say, word of honor, that it is Virginia's work, discovered decades later in an attic trunk by her daughter. The story is that the little Virginia stammered, and her English teacher allowed her to write out her assignments...