Word: parcels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Behind the charges against him were the "enemies of the United States, those closely connected with the Communist Party . . . Their technique is to beat fallout shelters throughout the United States." As for Lane: "I don't know if he is being used or if he is part and parcel...
...pronged attack. First he tried a classic smear, telling the Assembly and the press that since the "Communist line" was anti-shelter, his accuser was therefore a Communist or a Communist dupe. Patronizingly, Carlino confessed: "I don't know whether he is being used or is part and parcel of the whole operation...
...Administration has its way, the farmers will not have much chance to upset predictions. The Government would set a national acreage allotment for wheat and feed grains that is lower than expected needs, parcel out the allotment to individual farmers on the basis of past acreage, and make up the difference between production and need by drawing from the Government's stores. Wheat farmers would be told not only how much wheat they could grow, but how much they could market. Wheat and grain farmers would continue to get Government price supports so long as they stayed within their...
...West Berlin's French sector. In ones and twos, the families who were in on the plan slipped into the house and gathered in the tiny cellar. There were 28 people, including three children and one half-paralyzed woman of 71. Each was allowed to carry one parcel; a pet dog had to be left behind for fear it would bark and give the plan away. When everything was ready, one man crawled through to see if the coast was clear. At his signal, the others followed; one by one, they crawled over to freedom...
...melt a glacier. At Mount Pleasant. London's main sorting office, the backlog rose to 5,000,000 letters. Railway stations were swamped: in one shed alone at Euston. 100,000 mailbags waited four days to be picked up. The post office announced that it could not handle parcel post (except for hospitals and military units...