Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delta Executive Vice President Thomas Miller calls "the total-distribution-by-air concept." Because of cheaper insurance, lighter crating, fewer warehouse charges and, most important, jet-quick delivery, air freight is often less costly than water, rail or road transport-even though air rates are considerably higher. Using air shipment for most of its electronics products, increasingly diversified Raytheon has cut delivery time from ten to twelve days to 48 to 72 hours-and therefore is selling off its field warehouses in the bargain. Sears now supplies its Honolulu store with everything from brassieres to tractors via United jets. Shipping...
...country's economic situation. Reports from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh suggested that the fall harvest throughout India is falling far short of expected goals-grim warning of a repeat of last year's food crisis, when the country was saved from outright starvation only by the shipment of 10 million tons of U.S. food. The current bitterness also seems to reflect widespread dismay over the failure of political leaders to provide dramatic remedies for India's huge problems...
...dyes, decided that they must go back to traditional vegetable dyes to give their ancient dragon patterns a softer tint. The King had helped to establish a handicrafts training center in his tiny Himalayan kingdom, and flew to New York with his queen in time to watch the first shipment of rugs go on sale (prices: up to $500). But Sikkim's weavers are still constantly taking time off for festivals and dancing, explained Hope. "That is one of our production problems...
Longshoremen in San Francisco, refusing to handle scab products, let a $300,000 shipment of Schenley's grapes rot on the docks. During the winter the California growers began a counter-boycott against those merchants who refused to carry Schenley products, a good indication that the boycott was beginning to squeeze...
...Board of Trade, reported that the nation's trade gap-the difference between high imports and low exports-was down from $295 million in July to $193 million in August, for the best showing since February. Part of the improvement could be attributed to the resumed shipment of exports after Britain's 45-day seamen's strike. But Jay, a 59-year-old economist, thought there was more to the story than that. He felt that the drastic measures recently imposed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson to hold down consumption and wages were beginning to take effect...