Word: receipt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken over the Burmese border town of Tachilek (pop. 10,000). There he had eight heroin factories and extensive warehousing facilities for independent operators. One narcotics agent who has studied Lo carefully told TIME'S Peter Simms: "You could take your opium to Lo and get a warehouse receipt that was as good in Tachilek as a First National City Bank draft is in New York. His chemists would analyze your opium, tell you the cost and give you an exact delivery date after processing. Anything you stored in his warehouse would never be stolen or confiscated by Burmese...
...investor must usually put up a minimum of $1,500 to $2,000 to buy a "parcel" of raw new spirits that his broker has bought from a Scottish distiller. In return, he gets a receipt from a bonded warehouse in Scotland giving him title to the whisky and bills for storage and insurance costs. After waiting out a three-year aging period specified by British law, he tries to sell his whisky to blenders who run short, or to other investors...
...another test of newsmen's rights under the First Amendment was unclear. Anderson and Whitten have obviously had access to BIA material for some time; eight columns in December were based on such papers. Technically, however, access and publication are not at issue; the legal question involves only receipt and possession of the stolen documents. The maximum penalty is ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine. When asked if his arrest might have a "chilling effect" on First Amendment rights, Whitten quipped: "I was personally chilled." Anderson's response was warmer. He charged that...
...turn, Patricia Arney, 32, a divorcee who is a district Democratic committeewoman, revealed to the Philadelphia Inquirer that State Senator Henry J. Cianfrani, 49, one of the conservative bill's strongest supporters, had paid for her abortion in 1970 while they were having an affair, and produced a receipt for his check to prove it. He did not deny their relationship, but said that he had given her the money to visit her family in Toledo and did not know that there had been an abortion. Though the disclosure caused yowls of protest on the floor of the state...
...cost of $4,000,000, the Labor Department is closely supervising the election to make sure that no one steals or stuffs the ballot boxes. More than 1,000 federal poll watchers will be on duty, covering every U.M.W. voting place, however remote. They must sign a receipt for every ballot they take with them to the field, and they will personally transport the ballot boxes back to the Labor Department, sleeping with them along the way if necessary. The ballots will be counted with representatives of both contestants near...