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  • When an individual is detached under orders from a permanent duty station and ordered to temporary duty, or to temporary duty for further assignment, his household goods, within prescribed permanent change of station weight allowance, may be packed, drayed, and placed in storage under storage provisions of e above.

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 10053 1949

  • When such facilities are not available, his household goods my be packed, drayed, and placed in commercial storage, in which case all costs other than those of packing and draying will be at owner's expense.

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 10053 1949

  • When such facilities are not available, household goods may be packed, crated, drayed, and commercially stored at Government expense within the time limit prescribed above.

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 10053 1949

  • Boats drawing from nineteen to twenty-six inches water can almost at all seasons ply on the Upper Ohio, and during the periods that the large boats are detained below the Falls, they are constantly employed in transporting produce, intended for the markets on the Mississippi, to Louisville, from whence it is drayed round to Shippingsport and re-shipped.

    A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

  • In those days all the cotton that came to Savannah was unloaded at this yard, and then drayed to steamers, etc. The result was, in one of my leaps from bale to bale I slipped and broke my right leg, and had to be carried home in the arms of one of the big Irish laborers.

    Memoirs of a southerner, 1840-1923, 1923

  • In those days all the cotton that came to Savannah was unloaded at this yard, and then drayed to steamers, etc.

    Memoirs of a Southerner Thomas, Edward J 1923

  • My greatest interest and occupation consist in going to look at my house, which is being cut out in Christchurch, and will be drayed to our station next month, a journey of fifty miles.

    Station Life in New Zealand 1871

  • "T 'ould gray drayed off directly, and he's gane tull t' loike bricks -- but t 'bay's no but sillyish -- he keeps a breaking oot again for iver -- and sae Ay'se give him a hot maash enow!"

    Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Henry William Herbert 1832

  • Part will sway, stick it in all way, slip it tip part way, drayed with receding pelvis.

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  • When an individual is detached under orders forma permanent duty station and ordered to a temporary duty pending further assignment to duty abroad, or to temporary duty pending further assignment to sea duty, his household goods within the prescribed permanent change of station weight allowance may be shipped to any point in the United States, or such household goods may be packed, drayed, and placed in storage facilities of the Service concerned under provision of paragraph 7 b above.

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 10053 1949

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