Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lerida, later Barbastro, killing some 300 civilians, in the process. It was useless to pretend that the towns lacked military importance. Lerida, a key town in the Leftist defense of Barcelona, was the temporary headquarters of Leftist Commander General Sebastian Pozas, and Barbastro not only contained many Leftist ammunition dumps but was last week an important Leftist base. One of Lerida's bombs landed smack on a public school, killed 70 children. Hundreds of adults were shot down by planes furiously strafing the streets. Three days later Leftist bombers were over Rightist held Saragossa in turn, blew...
Though New York Steam appeared to be condensing at an alarming rate, there was little reason for a preferred stockholder to dump his shares. At one time control of New York Steam rested with the Andrews Institute for Girls in Willoughby, Ohio, the executors of Founder Andrews' estate having paid a bequest in Steam stock. Eventually huge Consolidated Edison of New York bought control, now owns 96% of the common stock. Consolidated plans to merge Steam with the rest of its utility business, has asked the New York State public utility commission to approve an exchange offer by which...
...death was personally ordered by the local military satrap, General Sung Cheh-yuan. Shackled behind a motor car, the prisoner was dragged through the streets of Peiping while buglers blew their loudest and policemen beat up anyone who tried to use a camera. End came near the Peiping garbage dump. There 10,000 people watched the frost-nipped Lu Ju-hsin as he was forced to a kneeling position. Up behind him stepped a snappy Chinese soldier, placed the muzzle of a pistol against the back of the prisoner's head, killed him with a single bullet...
...point SEC did gain a victory. When Otis bought the Murray Ohio stock originally, the big stockholders it bought from agreed not to dump any of their remaining shares on the market for a certain length of time, a fact which was not stated in the offering prospectus. Bullish for the broker though such a statement would have been, the Court held that it should have been published, ordered that the like be published in future. Said the Otis lawyers last week: "The question as to what information should be contained in the prospectus has been the subject...
Over 1,216½ acres of what had been for years either swamp or unregenerate dump heap, squads of workers have been plowing and digging 24 hours a day since last June. Their job is to transfer about 7,000,000 cubic yards of ashes from the ash dunes of Flushing and Riker's Island to the swamps nearby, leveling off and grading a Fair ground. By day the dust clouds of their operations can be seen from the offices of the World's Fair Corporation designers on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles...