Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, members of a montagnard honor guard at Saigon airport paid their final farewell to their brother as his flag-draped coffin was put aboard a plane for shipment back to the U.S. and burial...
...leased presses in Los Angeles rolled at 7:30 in the evening (10:30 New York time), early enough to assure overnight air shipment to newsstands in all 13 of the Far Western states, including Alaska and Hawaii. But not all the Times's mail subscribers in the West got their paper on issue date. In the state of Washington and other distant points, as well as in cities reachable only by train, copies arrived at least 24 hours late...
Yorozu is expansion-minded. The paper is building a $15 million headquarters in Tokyo (completion date: 1964), will come out this fall with an English-language weekly edition that will be printed on rice paper for easy air shipment...
...York mobsville, reported the New York Daily News last week, has solved this nagging problem of the corpus delicti. Solution: the hydraulic press, used in automobile junkyards to reduce dead jalopies to manageable cubes of crushed metal for shipment to steel mills to be melted down. Victims are taken for a ride in the good old-fashioned way. The car is then driven to a cooperating junkyard with the cadaver in its baggage compartment. A crane lifts the car into the steel-lined pit of the hydraulic press, where it takes just 90 seconds to reduce a 1962 Cadillac...
...Which prohibits interstate shipment of oil pumped in excess of state production quotas...