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Word: freights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police believed that "the great piggy-bank robbery," as Paris papers called the heist, was almost certainly an inside job. Whoever masterminded the theft first had to know that the Administration des Monnaies et Medailles, which mints French coins, frequently ships them as ordinary freight, on the theory that transporting cash anonymously is safer than using armed guards. Next he had to know how and when last week's consignment was due to be transferred from the administration's plant in Pessac, outside Bordeaux, to the Bank of France in Paris. That intelligence was even more strictly guarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Francs a Lot | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...reported frauds have been enormous. The biggest to date was the $2 billion Equity Funding scandal of 1973, in which 22 insurance company employees were convicted of inventing some 56,000 fake policies for resale to other insurance companies. Other binary burglars programmed Penn Central computers to divert 277 freight cars to an obscure Illinois railroad siding, where both cargo and cars were plundered. An electronics expert aged 19 gained access to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph terminals and managed to order $1 million worth of supplies over nearly two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Computer Capers | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...almost a year, the Scheersberg A carried out normal freight duties in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Meanwhile, construction of five missile and torpedo gunboats purchased by Israel neared completion in the French port of Cherbourg. The boats were paid for by Israel, but France had halted all military trade with Arabs and Israelis. On Nov. 17, 1969, five weeks before the Israelis seized the gunboats, the Scheersberg A crew was again told that the ship had been sold. A new crew came aboard, and another mystery voyage began. Port records show that the ship left Almeria, Spain, for a course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: Uranium: The Israeli Connection | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...windfall. Hays T. Watkins, chairman of the Chessie System, the nation's largest coal hauler, expects 100 new mines to open along the line's routes in the next five years. That would add 33 million tons a year to the system's coal freight, 50% more than its present volume. All that will require more coal cars and enhance the revenues of railroad-equipment manufacturers like Pullman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPACT: Sizing Up the Winners and Losers | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...obviously want badly to trade with the U.S.," said John Ray, vice president of the H.B. Fuller Co., an adhesive and chemicals manufacturer. "They could buy our products from our plants overseas, but they are not interested. They want it from the U.S. directly." The reason is partly economic: freight rates are lower and delivery dates more precise from the U.S. But the Cubans also want a legitimate trading relationship and acceptance as an equal partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Good Neighbors Mean Good Business | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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