Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the Pentagon's painstaking precautions, Oregon Governor Tom McCall was aghast. Unlike the Okinawans, he recognized that transporting the nerve gas is far more dangerous than storing it. Citizen protest in Washington and Oregon was quick and vehement: a petition to stop the shipment collected 200,000 signatures; various groups staged "die-ins" to simulate the effects of the gas. As a last-ditch effort, McCall and Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington sued to block the shipment in U.S. district court. Late last month, President Nixon canceled the plan...
When The Shadow of Sound, a small volume of poetry, went on sale in Moscow a few weeks ago, the first shipment of 10,000 copies was sold out within two hours. That frenzied response was merely one more proof of the excitement that is generated by Andrei Voznesensky, who at 37 is among the best-and most talked about-of the Soviet Union's younger poets...
...last few years. Their quality, unfortunately, has varied widely. Some, like the S1 "Draft Physical" leaflets that are now selling briskly at Cambridge newsstands, are seductive but hardly useful. Others, with more obscure titles. contain absolutely essential details. As the end of a school year brings another shipment of students to the packing plant, it may be helpful to point out some of the best current offerings...
...discussed at closed party meetings throughout the Soviet Union. By all accounts, it was a scathing attack on shortcomings, waste, inefficiency and mismanagement in the economy (TIME, Jan. 26). Brezhnev spoke of lost productivity because of rampant alcoholism. As one example of mismanagement, he reportedly told of a shipment of four expensive construction cranes from East Germany. All four were shipped clear across the country to Vladivostok, but two of them actually were supposed to go to Odessa. They finally arrived in damaged condition at their correct destination...
...some curbing of competition. Is it logical or economical for four different airlines to fly half-empty planes at about the same time to the same place? On the other hand, transportation could be made much more efficient if the Government eased some of its old rules covering the shipment of goods. It might be wise to change the law forbidding any one company to use all modes of land, sea and air transport to move people or products...