Word: pilfering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved into "cellulized" holds so swiftly that a vessel that might otherwise have to stay in port for, say, 72 hours, can now get out in twelve. This alone can cut the cost of transoceanic shipping by more than 25%. Beyond that, the containers are hard to pilfer-so much so that Matson Navigation Co. saves $1,000,000 a year by their...
...realize that to pilfer more than $171 million from Clark Field in nine months would come to about $630,000 per day? I figure it would require at least 100 large trucks per day just to haul it away-hardly pilferage; more like grand theft...
...does. There are 4,000 servicemen in residence and 18 white women. What's more, the 4,000 servicemen have nothing to do but chase one little old Japanese soldier who still holds out in the hills and at night sneaks past the U.S. sentries to pilfer the colonel's private stock of gefilte fish. After a year of this, the servicemen are so desperate for something to do that they start teaching a hen to type...