Word: shipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inquiry then turned to the unidentified shipper. The taxi driver who had brought her to the airport recalled that she had asked him to drive carefully, saying: "These aren't eggs I'm carrying." Investigators soon discovered that she was Mrs. Marie Pitre, a 41-year-old Quebec City housewife who had had notes endorsed by Albert Guay. One day last week Mrs. Pitre, told by Guay that the police were shadowing her, took an overdose of sleeping tablets, was rushed to the hospital. There, as she began to recover, she admitted that she had shipped the mysterious...
...century ago, by virtue of her maritime and industrial supremacy, Britain had been the world's unrivaled banker, investor, manufacturer, middleman, shipper. The earnings of her exports, services and investments abroad gave her security and strength...
...Kansas City manufacturer ships his product to New York for export, the railroads grant him a special low export rate. During the war the nation's biggest export shipper was the Government; but its shipments never carried their foreign destination, and were often held for weeks at inland storage points to prevent port jams. Says the Government: it usually paid the full freight rate. For such "overcharges," Attorney General Tom Clark last week asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to make U.S. railroads refund "between $1 and $3 billion...
Needed: A Jewell. All this bustle was comparatively new to New Orleans which, despite its natural advantages, had languished after the Civil War. Up-&-coming ports like Houston snatched the title of No. i cotton shipper and took the business away. New Orleans shippers talked about snatching it back, but nothing much came of the talk until Governor Sam Jones in 1940 appointed a chunky cotton merchant named Edward Oswald ("Archie") Jewell to boss the Board of Port Commissioners (the "dock board''), which operates the 7½ miles of publicly owned quays and warehouses...
...land. Four of them- Southern Pacific; Northern Pacific; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; Union Pacific -still hold most of the remaining 16 million acres, worth $60 million. But the railroads have long since regretted their old bargain. The Government is now far & away the nation's biggest shipper...