Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steadily. In this year's first half, Balch sold 1,596 cars, grossing $4,500,000. The victims of his on-camera carnage are fixed at local body shops. When repaired, these autos can be sold as new goods, just like new cars that have been damaged in shipment. Repairs so far have cost Balch $60,000, but in some cases he is able to get higher prices for the hammered cars. "After all, you've got to pay more for a car that has been in show biz," says Balch with a devilish wink. He claims that...
With that, he imposed an almost total ban on the pesticide (exceptions: in cases of sudden epidemic, when DDT is the most effective means of combatting disease-carrying insects; shipment to countries where malaria is a problem; and use on onions, green peppers and sweet potatoes in certain areas that are particularly vulnerable to pests). The ban will not go into effect until the end of the year, allowing time to train farmers in using DOT'S chief substitute, methyl parathion, which is highly toxic but breaks down soon after being used...
...coins instead of nickels; price tags and taximeters are being adjusted. Road signs will soon be changed from miles to kilometers, and eventually drivers will have to learn to use the left-hand side of the street. In what the Bank of Japan describes as the biggest shipment of money in history, a cargo of 54 billion yen (about $180 million) in bank notes and coins reached Okinawa secretly last month in preparation for a massive conversion of currency. The islanders are being permitted to exchange most of their U.S. money at the pre-revaluation rate...
Still, the rewards have kept the traffic going. Salted, rolled and stashed in barrels with false labels, the alligator hides are shipped to manufacturers in France (mostly shoemakers) and Japan (belts, wallets, watchbands). And even when a shipment is uncovered, the law permits the confiscated catch to be auctioned off after it has been presented as evidence. So the buyer loses his poacher, but not his hides...
...Argentine freighter Santos Vega, now on the high seas, is due to dock at New Orleans this month with a cargo of Rhodesian chrome. The shipment violates the sanctions against trade with Rhodesia imposed by the United Nations Security Council in 1966 and marks the first time the U.S. has deliberately ignored its U.N. charter obligations...