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From there it is often smuggled by ship to Hong Kong, e.g., concealed in a crate of oranges or hidden inside the cable drum of a deck winch. Hong Kong's more than 150,000 dope addicts require an estimated 40 tons of opium a year, and though British narcotic agents search all arriving planes and boats, they seldom recover as much as 1½ tons of opium annually...
...SHELDON DECK Registered Pharmacist
...arrest of plotters on "basic humanitarian principles in the Americas." But the U.S. Navy, not keyed in, sent seven ships to Ciudad Trujillo harbor to let the crews have liberty ashore. The imposing sight of the anchored U.S. Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, with its jets ready on the flight deck, and of bluejackets all over the streets, gave most Dominicans the impression that the U.S. was backing Trujillo...
...proudly announced the establishment of man's first practical communications system by way of the moon, linking Washington and Hawaii. To celebrate the occasion, Navy officials displayed a radio photograph sent from Hawaii via the moon, of the carrier Hancock with its crew lined up on the flight deck to spell out "Moon Relay...
...When Alcoa pits a piece of its "New, Super-Strength Alcoa Wrap" against "ordinary wrap," it stacks the deck by seeing to it that the "ordinary wrap" is "deliberately torn and severely wrinkled," puts a dried-out ham in the ordinary wrap and a fresh...