Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Packed in Ice. Shortly after the youth died, Shumakov transplanted one of the boy's kidneys into a Soviet recipient, and directed his team to prepare the other for shipment to New York. Carefully preserved in sterile solution and wrapped in plastic bags and ice, the kidney was placed aboard a regularly scheduled Moscow-New York Aeroflot jet, while Shumakov sent word to U.S. doctors via a Soviet friend in New York that a kidney was on the way. Rushed by ambulance from the airport, the kidney was bathed in nutrient-rich fluid, then "typed" so that doctors could...
Holding Fuel. Gas producers, based mainly in the South and Southwest, have indeed been holding back fuel that could be fed into interstate pipelines for shipment to the East Coast and the Midwest, because the Federal Power Commission will let them charge no more than $1.44 per 1,000 cu. ft. for it. Instead, they have been selling the gas in the states where it is produced, mainly Texas and Louisiana, at uncontrolled prices of around $2. Indications are that the amounts of gas thus diverted are vast. Interstate pipelines took 67% of all new gas produced...
...pick up tickets for this contest at 60 Boylston St. The Athletic Office received a shipment of 150 tickets yesterday, and the most expensive seats are $3.50 for students...
...authorities' vigilance was highly rewarding. The squad unknowingly captured the chief plane of "Pot Air Line," a transportation enterprise financed by the Mafia. Seized was eight tons of marijuana, with a street value as high as $16 million, the largest shipment of pot ever flown into...
...Nazi occupiers thought highly of Menten, and made him, among other things, a custodian of Jewish antique dealerships. On his trip back to Holland in 1943, he traveled in a private train carrying four carloads of his personal art works. This remarkable shipment brought him to the notice of Dutch Resistance fighters, and after the war Menten was tried as a Nazi collaborator...