Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disciples, he was a prophet who preached a gospel of orgasm. But many colleagues in Europe put him down as a pornographic charlatan and Communist crackpot. After Reich moved to the U.S., a federal court handed him a two-year sentence for defying a court order that forbade shipment of his notorious but harmless "orgone box" across state lines.* Yet now, 14 years after his death in the Lewisburg (Pa.) prison, Reich is recognized as a pioneer of the nonverbal, body-oriented therapies that are fashionable in psychiatry today. Reprinted in paperback, his main works (The Function of the Orgasm...
...crew shot more than 10,000 ft. of color film during the visit and sent 30-odd voicecasts back to the U.S. via telephone relay. There was no evidence of censorship of dispatches from Peking, and China waived its rule requiring that all film be developed and inspected before shipment out of the country. But there was no indication that the journalists had much freedom to roam either. All film and copy were carefully noncontroversial...
...labeled vitamin B17, can prevent all cancers by alleviating the nutritional deficiency that he is convinced causes the disease. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, disagreed. In the absence of clinical proof that Laetrile actually worked against cancer, the agency refused in 1963 to allow its interstate shipment...
...high loss rate common in warehouses. Like many other leaders in the freight industry, Ryder is convinced that shippers should be able to own "intermodal systems" that could provide air, ground and water transportation for customers under a single bill of lading. "Today, the company that originates a shipment is careful about it," he says. "The others don't care what happens...
When these dangerous materials are removed they are transported over highways or railroads to a reprocessing plant. By 1963, with only ten operating reactors, the AEC had reported 47 accidents in waste shipment, including 18 spills and 15 "severe impact accidents." Vernon's wastes would be taken to the Nuclear Fuel Services facility in West Valley, New York. This plant, run by the Getty oil interests, is notorious for its tendency to continue sending employees into high radiation areas until they have received the maximum legal dose. Of 80 employees on strike in late 1969, 70 had received more than...