Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything to do with the matter, the Governor could hardly overlook the fact that the accused were his principal backers for the U. S. Senatorial nomination. Whereupon he summoned the accuser to the brownstone executive mansion in Harrisburg, ordered Mr. Margiotti to shortcut his projected grand jury investigation and dump all the evidence in the Governor's ample lap. When the indignant Attorney General declined to do so, only naming the man supposed to have passed the bribe, Candidate Earle fired Candidate Margiotti. Out with him, by discharge or resignation, went two of his deputies, his publicity...
Hungarian border patrols, after the Czechs hastily drove off, acted on the theory that the only thing to do was to dump the Jews back into Austria, now part of Greater Germany...
...producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy than its oil fields. Thirteen percent of the Government's revenues have come from the silver industry. Silver is a major factor in its currency and in its foreign exchange. And if Mexico tries to dump its silver directly on the world market, Secretary Morgenthau can simply pull his plug...
...city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that our bombs exploded the ammunition dump and the crash of the boxes of dynamite, cartridges and so forth turned the neighborhood of the station into an inferno...
...them, drag a heavy steel cable across the ruins of the foundations and try to wrap it around the tall, narrow piece of wall. They cannot hitch it on high enough to get effective leverage. The other end of the cable is bent onto the bumper of a heavy dump truck...