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...most unusual mix of American expatriates in the Pacific. The island's biggest contractor is a Portuguese Hawaiian. A Massachusetts Jew manages the copra-processing plant. They are a demonstrative lot. When Majuro's American Chamber of Commerce got no satisfaction at a meeting to protest air-freight rate increases, members pelted the two Air Mike representatives with banana cream pies...
...movies (The Gauntlet, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Dirty Harry) at one sitting. "An Eastwood triple feature," the star remarked kindly when he heard about it. "After that you'll need a tin cup and a white cane." In his newest film, The Gauntlet, Eastwood races by car, motorcycle, freight train and bus to bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does not even bother with standard Hollywood equipment such as a pressagent, live up to his screen image. After...
...rejiggering of freight rates by the Interstate Commerce Commission to lower the cost of shipping steel by railroad. The aim is to enable steel produced in the Midwest to compete more efficiently with foreign steel, much of which is sold in coastal areas close to ports of entry...
...front companies in Paris; bills of lading were rewritten at sea from "Destination Rotterdam" to "Transshipment Rotterdam, Destination U.S.S.R." Not only was the Russian demand for ships an omen that the U.S.S.R. planned to buy more gram than would be necessary with a good harvest, but it lifted world freight rates by 15%,which should also have produced alarm. Finally, U.S. prices of wheat and corn took a slight upward tick from August through October, a rare happening at harvesttime, when prices are almost always depressed. The only explanation: large foreign purchases...
...filled with 54 freighters-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...