Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harmarville, Pa., a shipment of cast-off clothing from anthracite miners of the Scranton district brought 300 bituminous strikers stumbling through the muddy snow to scramble for pickings. Of this scene, Vice President Charles E. Lesher of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. (Mellon) said...
...express either amazement or bewilderment over the sometimes irreconcilable phenomena of modernity. Still credulity and belief have their limitations and even the imagination talks when asked to solve the enigmatical causa causans of the enforcement of compulsory golf at Annapolis. It is not unassuming to picture natty mid-shipment pursuing the elusive golf pellet over the briny billows of the deep. No ardent enthusiast of the green has falled, at some moment or other, to meditate upon the possibility of a rolling sea suddenly solidified, but the very idea of battleships being equipped with golf courses, midshipmen adding knickerbockers...
Travel is pretty expensive these days, and times are getting so that even when a person is dead he can't be assured that he will get any concessions from the steamship companies. A shipment of Yucatan Indians, bound for Cambridge, were forced to discard their personal identity before they could even get half-fare tickets...
...Yucatan Indians comprising the shipment were, and still are, dead, buried, and mummified. They were bound for the University Museum from their native land, to be set up as curiosities and gazed at by people who have never been mummified...
...cents, a fourth of a cent above its par value (40.20 cents). The difference made gold worth shipping to Holland, and Manhattan bankers hastened to load $4,000,000 in gold on the S. S. Veendam, just as she was at the point of departing from Manhattan. The shipment was the first to Holland since before...