Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from their first convention in 1905, when howling Wobblies jammed a Loop auditorium, sang Dump the Bosses Off Your Back, retired at intervals for schooners of beer at Hinky Dink Kenna's saloon. Last week there was no singing, no beer, little rejoicing...
Things to Do. As a working member of the earth-moving Six Companies, Hendy will specialize in cranes, power shovels, dump-truck bodies, etc., will have a sizable market in the Six Companies alone. It also plans to produce any other machinery the new industrial West needs. Already Hendy has a backlog of $10,000,000. President McCone expects to boost sales to $3,000,000 a month...
...anti-British nor anti-Russian, but ardently pro-Greek. By implication, the film pleads for continuing UNRRA relief, increased U.S. sympathy and support, a free expression of popular opinion in the coming Greek general elections. Most eloquent shot: two small, hungry Greeks ratting around the trash of a city dump, pushing aside worthless, repudiated drachma notes in their search for something...
...relative writes from Saipan: ... A few of the boys got over on the beach and watched them dump brand-new tanks, each equipped with a toolbox outfit that left nothing to be wanted, over a cliff. . . . They saw thousands of crated brand-new jeeps being burned . . . and you can't get a jeep to drive with on the island. The orders are: 'Destroy before the civilians get 'em.' They say they're doing a better job of 'burnt earth policy' than when the Japs took over. Maybe they're doing the right...
...night last week, Columnist Walter Winchell, who writes for Hearst and sells lotions on the side, panted over the radio: "Insiders in New York expect a very sharp decline in the stockmarket before the holidays, suckers." Next day impressionable "suckers" rushed to dump their holdings. Result: the worst market break in two years. In the unreasoning selling, nearly every stock on the Big Board slumped. By day's end the Dow-Jones industrial averages had dropped 3.4 points...