Word: airfreighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million a year into their city. The Dempster's boosters see one certain payoff. No longer will residents of Inuvik and the outlying Mackenzie Delta, where oil exploration is now being expanded, need to import most of their food, fuel, clothing, machinery and other supplies by expensive airfreight...
...routes through Rhodesia to southern Africa's ports for its main export, copper. After the boycott closed the Rhodesian borders, scarce alternative routes disappeared, world copper prices declined, and Zambia began running short of food, machinery, oil fertilizer, soap and coal. Inflation ballooned to 30%, fueled partly by expensive airfreight shipments to speed goods, and foreign debt climbed to $1.5 billion...
...guests were hauled about Bangui in 60 spanking-new Mercedes-Benzes. The cars were shipped to the Cameroon, then airfreighted to the C.A.E. Airfreight charges alone were $5,000 per automobile...
...half break-bulk and being unloaded, half containerized and untouched by strikers' hands. Goods are also being shipped in containers through West Coast ports, which are not struck. The increased traffic has taxed facilities there, but sellers have still another trade route: air freight. Pan American's airfreight business via Kennedy Airport was up a third over last October. Prices of some air-freighted goods have risen to cover the added shipping costs: Bloomingdale's, the big Manhattan department store, has tacked 40? per Ib. onto the price of cheese flown in from Europe...
Iran's expanding economy, moreover, might easily be strangled by a tradition of bureaucratic bungling and red tape. Simply to retrieve an incoming airfreight package from Tehran's international airport requires 13 signatures from as many offices, a process that takes about three hours. A Tehran resident, complying with the law by paying an additional $1.20 tax assessment not long ago, had to try for nearly a month before he found the appropriate offices and could fill out the proper forms. "A thousand-rial [$13] bribe would have settled it in three minutes," he said bitterly...