Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what pleases the soldier most about the PX is its prices, which run about 20% below U.S. retail prices. Reason: the PX does not have to pay income taxes, gets free shipment of goods overseas, has its stores built for it, spends little for advertising or promotion. Clothing sells for 15% to 50% less than in the U.S., watches for 55% less, quality cameras for up to 45% less. And by buying from the PX, the soldier is actually dealing himself a bonus: all PX profits go to military welfare funds...
...early June Trinidad dockworkers refused to unload a $20,000 consignment of South African hardboard, forcing its return to the manufacturers; three weeks ago a shipment of tires met the same fate. The Sudan instituted a formal boycott, forcing cancellation of $250,000 worth of contracts for South African asbestos piping and glass products. Last week Malaya's Prime Minister Abdul Rahman banned all trading with South Africa as of Aug. 1, declared "economic war" on South Africa until she handles her racial problems in "a humane...
...Aytona has fired 60 department underlings, brought corruption charges against 90 more and started investigations of 400 others. He found one tax examiner whose income rose $40,000 in a year, a customs inspector who reported and charged duty on only 100 lbs. of a 20,000-lb shipment of watermelon seeds. He warned ministry employees to stay away from race tracks, cockpits, casinos and especially Manila's thriving new "dayclubs," a collection of cabarets complete with B-girls catering to men who found it easier to get away from their jobs in the afternoon than their wives...
...standstill; in central Java only 50 sugar mills were operating (v. 120 prewar), and some 200,000 mill workers were unemployed. Everywhere, there was graft, red tape and spectacular inefficiency. Shiny new Czech tractors proved useless in the flooded rice fields; some 30% of a 100,000-ton Swedish shipment of cement had turned to rock because no one thought to bring it in out of the rain...
...EXPORT LICENSES in first quarter rose to postwar high of $35.4 million, up from $30.5 million in last quarter of 1959. Products authorized for shipment included four helicopters for Premier Khrushchev. Now Government experts predict increased cold-war tensions will cause a drop in trade with Russia...