Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Howard, bringing up the shipment of British buses to Cuba: Do you feel these purchases represent a failure of the United States' blockade...
...government action against Banks is not likely to make sailing any smoother on the Great Lakes. While most Canadian unions supported the government, the parent S.I.U. decided to keep Banks on the payroll at $20,000 a year. It seemed likely that trouble on the waterfront might block shipment of the $254 million worth of grain that Canada still has to deliver to Russia. The New York-headquartered S.I.U., with some 70,000 members and A.F.L.-C.I.O. backing in the dispute, pledged "absolute support for Hal Banks," hinted at the possibility of a "massive blockade" of Canadian shipping...
...broken loose with picks. Piled outside the station, it often lies forgotten through the winter, serving small boys as a toboggan slope. When a traveler once congratulated a rural stationmaster on the bumper wheat crop pressing in on the tracks, the embarrassed official explained: "First, there was this shipment of fertilizer that never got picked up. Then there was that shipment of seed grain that didn't get delivered. They just got together...
...Beatles have arrived, and record stores in the Square report that sales of their first album are comparable to the heydays of Harry Belafonte and Joan Baes. Briggs and Briggs has sold 75 copies of "Meet the Beaties" in three days. The Coop's first shipment of forty albums went on sale Wednesday and were gone yesterday. Minute Man is sold out of "Meet the Beatles" and a second album, "Introducing the Beatles," is almost gone...
...visiting businessman and journalist in Moscow that he is eager to buy not fertilizer but entire fertilizer plants from the U.S. Whether or not to sell him plants is a high-policy decision now facing President Johnson and Congress. One sticker is the Export Control Act, which bars the shipment of anything that would significantly help the Communist bloc's economy. Farmer Khrushchev would be the first to hope that U.S. fertilizer plants would do just that...