Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as his latest shipment of sheep was okayed by federal inspectors, U.S. sheep raisers called for quotas, higher tariffs, or anything else that would stop the shipments. Said rival California Rancher Clay Broadbent: "Either we stop the Australian sheep-or regulate the flow of them-or it will mean the end of the American sheep industry...
RUSSIAN PIG-IRON shipment of 2,500 tons is being purchased by U.S. firms for 20% under the domestic price. Budd Co. is testing 600 tons, which it has bought for castings...
...assembly plants go down this week. Some of Chrysler's plants are on a four-day basis, and the companies may have to close some parts and components plants altogether this month because of the two-week to one-month lead time for steel to be fabricated after shipment from the mill. Even foreign automakers are hurt: Vauxhall Motors Ltd., G.M.'s British subsidiary, will chop production schedules over the next three months, largely because its imports of U.S. steel were...
...long enough for Belle's wife to have a baby in Brazil; parents of Brazilian-born children are not deportable. For Birrell, Chaloupe began by starting a flock of legal actions that blocked immediate expulsion. Then, as U.S. embassy officials explained to Assistant D.A. Hallisey, Birrell received a shipment of cash, and Brazilian newsmen began receiving invitations to cocktail parties where the talk favored Birrell...
With the Apollo lay two lesser but still important finds: a bronze Muse from the era of Praxiteles and a fifth century marble column with the head of Hermes. Archaeologists speculate that an exporter may have warehoused the statues for shipment to Imperial Rome some time during the Augustan Age. and then lost track of them. At week's end four new finds were reported, including a bronze shield covered with bas-reliefs. Feverish digging continued. The street may yield more still...