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Where had this cache come from? BDAC agents traced a Fixaco shipment eastward to a New York City pier where it was marked for legal export to Hong Kong. U.S. Customs men opened the two drums. Instead of a million bennies, they found nothing more incriminating than concrete and stuffing, topped with a thin layer of pills. After two more arrests were made in New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney Irvin L. Ruzicka indicated that one way for bennies to get into the domestic black market is by simple diversion from the perfectly legal export trade...
...going to stop selling the buttons," Levy said. "We keep getting new batches all the time." The latest shipment includes "Let's Get Naked and Smoke," "Acid Indigestion -- Check Your Source," and an over-sized one which proclaims "Support Your Local Police-Bribe a Cop Today...
...Wilson an ideal choice as the Chicago board's new head. He is a man who knows his way not only around commodities, but also Government. Less than a week after his move was announced, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a 3,000,000-ton, Government-subsidized shipment of American wheat and sorghum to drought-stricken India. The plan, proposed by the President and guided through Congress by Wilson, will spur business on the floor of the exchange. Clearly, knowledgeable Washingtonian Wilson, when he takes over in Chicago on June 1, should not have to learn the territory...
...buyers 480 million ballpoint pens, almost all of them use-and-discard models priced from 19? to 49? retail. Adler keeps a quarter of his 300 plant employees busy checking the quality of parts coming off automated production lines, personally scrutinizes the daily writing-test samples before each shipment leaves the temperature, dust-and humidity-controlled plant. "People are going to remember you if you're good," says Adler, "but they'll remember you better...
Still to be settled: compensation of Union Minière for $800 million in seized assets, and claims by the Congo on $100 to $150 million worth of copper in shipment at the time the mines were nationalized...