Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear power plant here, but it was rejected by the voters," said Austin City Manager Dan Davidson. "This is an unfortunate education for our citizens that we must have a new source of energy." In Indiana, Senator Birch Bayh rushed to aid farmers by arranging an emergency shipment of grain-drying propane gas from New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. and Houston's Tenneco...
Abram Sangrey, a spokesman for the Friends, said that the AFSC is now in the process of negotiating with Hanoi for the fifth shipment of supplies to Viet-Duc, which he said was the principal teaching hospital in the North before it was destroyed in the pre-1968 bombing raids...
...having diamonds if you have to keep them in the vault all the time?" Another factor in the diamond's decline is the high quality of man-made gems, which are distinguishable from the real thing only to the loupe-aided eye of a jeweler. One recent shipment of Wellington Counterfeit Diamonds was held up by U.S. Customs inspectors-until its owners could prove that the gems were artificial...
...payments that foreign customers make to Chile's state-owned copper company. The opening skirmish in this paper blockade was fought about a month ago, when the company got a Paris court to issue an injunction against payment by two French firms for a $1,400,000 shipment of copper headed from El Teniente to Le Havre aboard a West German freighter. Kennecott claimed that the copper is in effect stolen property...
...hauling five U.S. M48 tanks, the Army has been unable to move any armor into or out of its huge depot at Sagamihara, where military equipment is repaired for use in Viet Nam. Though some 200 tanks and armored personnel carriers are now bottled up in the depot awaiting shipment, Japan's tough riot police have not been called out against the protesters, who are after all only upholding the law: under local traffic regulations, which U.S. forces are bound to observe, the vehicles are too big to be moved without special permits...