Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVEN before the Apollo 11 astronauts were flown to Houston, a cargo nearly as precious was rushed to the Manned Spacecraft Center. Transported separately so that the whole shipment could not be lost in a single accident, two boxes containing some 60 lbs. of lunar soil and rocks were flown off the U.S.S. Hornet in two helicopters and taken to Johnston Island. From there, they were airlifted aboard two planes directly to Houston, then trucked to the Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL). The space agency gave the rocks such VIP treatment that NASA Administrator Thomas Paine, Robert Gilruth, director...
...part, the issue was forced into the open by the Army's plans to send approximately 809 carloads of obsolete poison gas cross-country for disposal in the Atlantic Ocean. After a public outcry, congressional critics succeeded in halting the shipment, pending a study of alternative means of destroying or detoxifying the agent. While the immediate concern is the danger of transporting a deadly commodity by rail at a time when freight derailings are on the increase, the incident served to dramatize far more basic doubts about chemical and biological weapons. Last week President Nixon ordered a thorough review...
...After a brief stay in incubators, the eggs are broken, and the toxic product is separated from the embryo and put into a centrifuge to eliminate impurities. Some of the processed material is used for test purposes. The remainder is frozen into pellets and hermetically sealed in containers for shipment. In other areas of Fort Detrick, animals and human volunteers (prison inmates and conscientious objectors) are used to test the efficacy of the plant's products...
...score turns out to be a crazy scheme to steal a U.S. armaments shipment for a freebooting Mexican general named Mapache, a slow-witted executioner fighting a losing battle against...
...before dinner was served, one or two hundred men would gather at the kitchen tent, not so much because the menu was outstanding, but because the food line passed a warehouse where a nubile brunette bounced around in her low-cut blouse and tight dungarees loading supplies for helicopter shipment...