Word: shipper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among the Feds' other sources of information is a Florida shipper who tried to recruit an undercover FBI agent to assassinate a competitor. Holding a homicide charge over the shipper's head, the Feds forced him to divulge details about huge bribes, totaling upward of $5 million a year, paid by shipping companies to union officials to buy labor peace. The FBI also infiltrated waterfront racketeers in New York at such a level that one undercover man became a courier for payoffs from shipping companies to the union. Justice Department lawyers expect to obtain indictments against both union...
Wine, like every other form of art and artifice, stands or slumps on manners. These new American vintages are well-trained: they do not speak out of turn. They await parental approval. They are infants. Alexis Lichine, a wine grower shipper and guru (The New Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits), observes that it has taken 20 centuries for the wines of Europe to evolve. Says he: "All it takes is time, trial and a great measure of good luck." To which, in the U.S., might be added patience, faith, curiosity and quite a few dollars...
...clock filling orders for spring and summer lines. Designers and assistants were feverishly sketching the fall collections that will go on show in May. On the street, whose signs proclaim it FASHION AVENUE, traffic was all but paralyzed by porters pushing wheeled racks of garments from shop to shipper. The end product of all this activity festooned stores large and small across the country, as window displays and clothes departments bloomed with the bright fresh crop of U.S. fashions...
...ships; total cost in the past six months: $18 million. Unscrupulous shipowners, the government believes, have added to the shambles by putting old tubs into line to collect demurrage, since it is more than they can make on the high seas. Paperwork is so fouled up that one shipper collected for demurrage and for cargo, even though he docked with nothing in his hold. In a desperate effort to find relief, Nigeria has tried to revoke the supposedly irrevocable letters of credit from the Nigerian Central Bank that backed the purchases in the first place. That move is wreaking havoc...
...exuberant bachelor until he was 40, Onassis in 1946 married 17-year-old Athina ("Tina") Livanos, daughter of one of Greece's most powerful shipping tycoons, Stavros Livanos. The marriage also made Onassis the brother-in-law of Shipper Stavros Niarchos, his rival for wealth, status and flamboyance...