Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message was from Langdon Bell, Business Manager of the Daily Princetonian and stated that a shipment of cigars was en route for Brighton to be distributed to the men suffering sartorially from last Saturday's defense of the goal-posts...
...frequently by many of the minor European states that traders find their dealings menaced by uncertainties not unlike those encountered when national currencies are fluctuating rapidly. Instances have occurred in which minor European states have deliberately jumped or lowered their tariffs on the occasion of a single large shipment across their frontiers, readjusting the tariff scale again when the shipment had passed. If such sharp practice could be eliminated and the attitude of tariff barriers fixed, international commerce would at least be able to adjust itself to a definite scale of "necessary evils." Paradoxically, though last week's manifesto...
...Pilgrim Fathers founded Massachusetts and literally filled the woods hereabouts in the early history of the colonies, immigration and the growth of cities have worked to render the Pilgrim so rare an avis in Boston now-a-days that the Jewett Players have been forced to advertise for a shipment...
...waylay those who tamper with comestibles or medicaments. In this sense, last week, Acting Secretary Charles Frederick Marvin was pleased to expose his judgments upon 50 violations of the Food and Drugs Act. Walnuts, 29 bags, were condemned because they contained "filthy, decomposed and putrid animal substance." An Oklahoma shipment of eggs showed "71.1% inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed rots, spot rots, blood rings and moldy eggs." There was no potency in "Womanette . . . emphatically the Woman's Friend, there being no condition to which the peculiarities of her sex render her liable in which this medicine...
Thrusting his point, Colonel Woods told that information of an expected drug shipment from one country to another now passes through such decorously deliberate diplomatic channels that the drug-running ship often outstrips by several weeks the information which would make possible its seizure. Smacking down his fist the Colonel cried: "Direct international police communication by cable would result in the seizure of almost all drug shipments...