Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bought huge tracts of Majorcan real estate, invested in the Spanish sugar trust, chemicals, coal and oil. Though he held government monopolies on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, he nonetheless continued to smuggle raw tobacco to avoid paying import taxes. Once, according to legend, he imported a shipment of right-hand gloves from Czechoslovakia, later bought a shipment of matching left-hand gloves, thus neatly sidestepping government import duties on finished goods...
Also, we have no record whatsoever of any return shipment to Germany from...
during the calendar year 1960. We presume, however, that you refer to a return shipment of about 70 units during the fall...
This return shipment was made only because the importer wanted the new Arabella model instead of the model Alexander...
...TOOLS FOR REDS were okayed by Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. He authorized shipment of $1,500,000 worth of machine tools, presumably for military use, that had been first approved by the Eisenhower Administration but held up by Defense Department objections. Hodges' reason: Soviets could easily buy them in Europe, so U.S. makers might as well profit...