Word: dump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fresh shudders went up the spine of Cleveland, Ohio last week. Negroes picking over a lakefront dump found the dissected body of a young white woman, wrapped in butcher's paper. From its condition it had apparently been kept on ice for some time before being buried on the dump. While police were examining this find, morbid onlookers discovered, 100 ft. away, parts of another, older cadaver, apparently a Negro's. Cleveland's police declared the crimes to be jobs No. 12 and No. 13 of "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (a title conferred by Cleveland...
...American officials, hard put to it to explain their first loss of passengers in nearly two years of transpacific flying, did not think the Clipper had caught fire. After last January they had changed the design of the gasoline dump valves. What had happened they did not know. The Hearst press suggested that since one of the passengers, a Jersey City, N. J. restaurant owner named Wah Sun Choy, was carrying money to China, was it not a case of Japanese sabotage? An investigator from the Bureau of Air Commerce started from Washington, with little hope of discovering anything. Meanwhile...
...Francisco bank. Joining C. I. O. would have meant the subordination of Harry Lundeberg to Joseph Curran, leader of C. I. O. seamen in the East (who outnumber West Coast seamen five to one). "Yoost a sailor," Lundeberg wanted to be alone. Last spring he began to "dump" East Coast seamen from West Coast ships, picket C. I. O. crews. When Harry Bridges' C. I. O. longshoremen crashed S. U. P. picket lines, the break between the Harrys was complete...
...most had anticipated-but bad enough to spur Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace's efforts to perfect a new wheat-loan program. And such were the prospects for the three major crops (others appeared to be in fairly normal shape) that Secretary Wallace and President Roosevelt prepared to dump the cornucopia of Government largess as never before...
...pages, told in 104 cinematic scenes, House of All Nations takes for its pot the luxurious Paris private bank of Bertillon & Cie., described by its head, elegant, cynical, lucky, grandly deluded Jules Bertillon, as "a rich man's club: a gambling, deposit and tax-evasion bank ... a society dump" doing business in "grapples, clinches, blackmails, plunges, lucky breaks, long odds, lowdowns, big gambles, and secret bookkeeping...