Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome apartment. Hiding from the Gestapo, he slept on streetcars and in churches. He ended the war with a citation from British Field Marshal Alexander and a job as chief anthropologist for the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service. His duties: sorting and reassembling the bones of U.S. soldiers for shipment home. ("Can't you make it faster?" shouted the major in command. "Can't you make it faster!") In 1952, foreseeing a third World War, he fled to Brazil because "it looked big and green...
...offer-not for the banana car, but for a 1962 Pontiac Tempest that otherwise would have cost her $850. Not surprisingly, the United Fruit Co. got into the act by supplying Mrs. Wyszynski with 1,370 free bananas (value: $60) to complete the deal. De Gonge sent the whole shipment to a hospital for crippled children. As for the down payment, his hungry salesmen...
...University has refused to allow of its seventy designated fall-out to be stocked with survival shipment, according to Charles F. , Cambridge's Civil Defense director...
Last week came news that Kenyatta was expecting a shipment of Russian arms, but before anyone could jump to the conclusion that the former Mau Mau chieftain had thrown his lot in with the Communists, Security Minister Mungai rushed out a statement reassuring everyone that there was nothing pernicious about the deal. "Kenya will continue to buy arms and ammunition from West or East as long as they are suitable and carry the right price," he said...
...Birrenbach, Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol prodded Bonn for action on 1) extending the statute of limitation to permit the arrest and trial of Nazi murderers still at large, 2) forcing the return home of German scientists working on Egypt's rocket program, and 3) resuming the shipment of arms to Israel suspended last month because of Nasser's protests...