Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scot who fathered the U.S. Navy was prepared for shipment to the U.S. The limbs were encased in tinfoil; the body was wrapped in a shroud and then was placed in a sealed, straw-and alcohol-filled lead casket. But the U.S. frugally refused to pay the freight. Hero Jones was unceremoniously buried in Paris' obscure St. Louis Cemetery, where he lay undisturbed, despite sporadic efforts over 113 years to find his body...
...Great Invention. When American Express was formed 106 years ago, out of a merger between three eastern companies, its founders had no thought of handling anything but freight and money. Co-Founder Henry Wells in 1841 had pioneered express service from Manhattan to Buffalo, later began New York-Buffalo mail service by printing orange stamps and carrying letters for 6? v. .the 25? Government postal rate. As a result, the U.S. Post Office set up a nationwide 3? postage in 1848. American Express helped build its freight business by introducing C.O.D. shipments, but the most important American Express invention...
...electrical plant in Staffordshire, two impulsive canteen waitresses pinned the visiting Russian and planted moist, ruby-red busses on his cheeks. A moment later, in high good humor, Georgy stepped into a freight elevator, watched the steel door clank shut and cracked: "Ah ha, I see you have an Iron Curtain here. We've discarded it in Russia...
...foods to U.S. armed forces in Europe is a 35-year-old ex-G.I. by the name of Robert T. McLane. McLane's huge fleet of refrigerated trucks delivers American-style white bread twice weekly to U.S. units from Berlin to Bordeaux; every day he ships eleven freight cars of fresh milk to Army mess halls and post exchanges. At the delivery entrance of Paris' U.S. embassy, at the private billets of American officials, at some 400 service clubs and European restaurants, McLane's trucks roll up with everything from fresh celery to fresh caviar, from...
...idealism in founding the conference as a vehicle for "the precious freight of opinion," stiffly academic Wilson never grew to feel Ike's enthusiasm for it. Within a year, after newspapers began speculating on whom his daughter Margaret might marry, Wilson soured on the press, lectured his conferences on invading his family's privacy. Finally he gave up the sessions, pleading the pressure of his World War I duties...