Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wally Windsor was never a queen, but she managed a faint Marie Antoinettish echo on her return (temporary) to Britain last week. Asked about her wardrobe by a reporter who had just seen three army trucks and two jeeps dump about two tons of baggage, the Duchess said: "We hardly brought anything. Things are fantastic in Paris now. No one will be able to buy clothes there any more if they keep putting the prices up." The conversation turned naturally from clothes to parties. Would the Duchess do much entertaining? "I am here," she said, "in a very unofficial capacity...
...emptied on a large metal receptacle for the benefit of all on-lookers, but the trays are piled up, carried to the kitchen, and emptied there in private by the help. An alternate to this system would be to provide one exit for all Union diners, who would dump their trays on a table separated by a screen from incoming lines. This could be done by having the line coming in through the Quincy Street entrance go along the food tables in the opposite direction to the one traveled now, while all students leave via Quincy Street, using the present...
...Customers paid up to 25. 6d. (50?) for such gems as Vivid Confessions and How to Write Intimate Love Letters. Outraged British publishers couldn't prove it, but they felt sure that some of this Canadian flood came from U.S. firms anxious to dump their recent heavy returns...
...line of cars hurtled down a six-lane highway in bright daylight. Suddenly, a shift in the wind whipped smoke from a burning garbage dump across the highway, forcing one driver to slow down. In a moment, the line became a screeching, telescoping, side-swiping shambles; 25 ears were wrecked or damaged; 13 people were injured, seven hospitalized. But, except for the number of cars involved, it was routine. Nobody had been killed...
...Dump. Just why A.T. & T. had dropped first and farthest was easier to explain. Since June, announcement of new financing has almost invariably been followed by a drop in the stock of the company concerned. When Montgomery Ward and American Home Products announced new issues, stockholders went on a selling spree; Monky Ward's stock dropped 21½ points and American Home Products fell 22½ points. A.T. & T. stockholders last week were of the same temper. They looked beyond the $2 billion expansion program (reason for the new financing) to see its effect on A. T. & T. earnings...